Mike Kitchen

You can't help but follow his work ethic. He'll give you everything he has.

He had such a good reads. He would give a person ice and then just take it away. All the passes he used to intercept, he would give that pass and then he'd take it away. That's a real knack in itself.

Our power play struggled. It didn't give us any momentum at all.

The offense was there. Four goals is enough to win. We just made a few errors we shouldn't have made.

We scored enough goals, we should win the game. We made a couple of errors there that ended up in the back of our net.

It changes the whole look of your team when he's out there in practice. He's still scoring goals with a bad hand, so it would be nice to welcome him back into the lineup.

He's probably looking at ... in a full year ... probably getting 20-25 goals.

He played very well in the tournament and was a big part of the tournament. That doesn't happen very often when you get to win a gold medal in the Olympics.

I don't have any explanation for it at all. You think you'd build off a good game and a win, but ... I don't know why that happens. We're not strong in that area, where we can just keep building and moving forward.

You don't want to aggravate (the hand). It's just a matter of letting it settle down. I think he'll be fine. He seems pretty confident (about playing Sunday). I can't say for sure because it's a day-to-day thing.

We keep saying that the young guys are chipping and the veterans are doing a terrific job. Maybe some teams are underestimating us a little bit ... they know we're out of the playoffs, they keep hearing about all the trades that are supposed to happen, and maybe they don't get up as much. I don't know, but our team is doing a strong job.

I think he had a very strong game. In the American (Hockey) League, he plays like that. We're trying to push him that way. I think he's nervous. He has to feel like he belongs here.

I hope the momentum comes back and we're able to establish to where we were, because we were playing pretty well as a team the last 15 or 16 games. We've had some terrific practices here.

We know what to expect from Scott and he knows what to expect from us. We hope he comes back the way he left.

You hope to get it to overtime. But you know, there's lessons to be learned there. ... Their best players were their best players.

It was a pretty questionable call. Those kinds of calls are the things, I think, hurt the game.

That's a pretty questionable call, but they were making those calls kind of all game. Those kinds of calls are the things I think hurt the game. Not just that one, there were others, one that even Colorado took, too.

A shootout's a shootout. We're going from a terrific team game into an individual thing. I guess that's what the fans want. But it's a little disheartening. The guys played hard for 65 minutes and then you lose in a shootout.

I think when we started the season, there was a big adjustment for him. Then he adapted very quickly and came along really well, which was good to see because we needed that veteran leadership back on the blue line. I've been pleased with how he's played.

We played hard, I thought we had good effort.

To win a hockey game on something like that, that's a real tough break. I thought we had a terrific effort tonight and we deserved a little bit better fate.

We had the lead going into the third period, and we gave up two goals. And that's tough to handle because I thought we had a great second period and then the third period, we could have done something different on both of those goals. That was disappointing.

I thought we had such a strong game in Detroit and I thought it was going to be a real building block for us moving forward. That hasn't happened.

I think McAmmond has stepped in and played pretty well at center. I wouldn't have thought that earlier on in the year ... because I've known Dean as strictly a left winger. I've got to give him marks.

I thought we won it in overtime. I think he felt pretty bad about that. I thought for sure he was going to score.