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Somebody will say he only had four assists, but they were huge -- setting up winning goals, making big plays, drawing penalties. He could have drawn about 10 more penalties. And he's a leader in the room along with Patty, they share that responsibility.

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We've been like umpteen points behind (in the standings) and caught people so two goals down in the first 10 minutes is not that big a hill to climb for us.

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That's counting. Our guys spend so much damn time watching poker you figure they'd learn how to count. They know how to count the cards in poker so it should be easy to count the guys on the ice.

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We can't sit back and expect Joe to score three or four goals and we jump on his back. He has to do his job and we have to do our job.

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The best thing we can do is win all our games, then you don't even have to bother. Our focus right now has to be on Colorado, but those two games against Vancouver right now are huge as well as the game in L.A. It's the L.A. and Vancouver games that seem to have the most importance.

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That was not a good call. . . . That's what (expletive) you off. You've got a great hockey game going and you get put down on a questionable call.

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We desperately need the space. Our high school, especially, is severely crowded at this point and has been for years. We've known this for a long time.

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I don't think that's a big part of the game right now. It's about power plays and penalty kills, it's not about fighting. And it's a little different if the tough guy can play. ... I'm not going to knock some of these other guys who can play only three minutes and if you ignore them they're totally useless.

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He's going to be a 35-40 goals scorer.

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Patty had one of his best games of the year on both sides of the puck. He was very focused throughout.

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The forwards didn't loan him a stick and maybe Kyle didn't yell at anybody to hand him a stick.

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This was their third game in four nights. It's not like we're spring chickens right now -- we've been playing a lot of hockey -- but they didn't have the same zip that they normally have. And that's why I think we were able to carry the play.

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This was the fastest exhibition game I've ever seen. It was faster than some regular-season and even some playoff games. That doesn't always translate into goals, but the transition, the up and back, is fun.

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We got the upper hand quick, they did a lot of complaining and the next thing you know, we have five penalties in a row against us and it threw us off our rhythm. From that point on, you never knew what was going to be a penalty.

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I didn't expect us to win 15 in a row going down the stretch. If we're going to lose, I'd rather lose like this and have everybody's attention in practice (Friday) instead of letting one slip away late and come out of it feeling OK.

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I didn't like either one of those goals. I've seen this happen before, the floodgates open so I stepped in to try and stop it.

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That shot he took was a cannon. It was on his stick and into the net, unbelievable. Matt Carle continues to improve, to be the type of player that raises a lot of eyebrows.

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He was on top of his game in all five. Last season, if you look, he had a lot of points but he had them in 3-4 games. This time it's been spread out and he's been a dominant player just about every shift. He's on the right side of the puck all the time.

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We took a couple of bad penalties at the end and it cost us big-time.

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I'm happy we spent all day (Tuesday) working on our power play. They've got great special teams. Fortunately, we had those opportunities, because we didn't look much better than we did in Phoenix to be honest.

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I didn't like the way we were giving up goals in the third period. We need to show more poise, but our offense was there as it has been for the last three games.

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I don't think he realized how hard that is. He's very comfortable, and this is when it matters most too. These are huge games, and to see the young guys come through like this is great.

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We're a team that's pretty resilient. We showed that this year, and now, I mean, I would've loved to have won both games in Nashville. We've got to try and get a split.

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There comes a point when we have to have some people step up and play as well as you can. That's a lack of trust if you're trying to do too much. If one guy tries to play 1-on-1 hockey, that's telling your teammates they aren't good enough.

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I'm not happy with the way we played in the first half of the game, but we took control and got a number of scoring opportunities.

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