I'm not going to say it was the prettiest game, but I think the third period, we played solid. 'Sandy' was the key to the game. He made some huge saves for us.

Not every game is going to be the prettiest game. It used to be a third-period lead was rock-solid and now it is not. We need to bear down. But we have to get two points and that is what we did.

I think we stepped our game up in the second half of the third period and played like we can. We need to work on driving to the net with a purpose ... and making our plays. We can't just keep throwing the puck at the net and hoping to score.

Give them credit, they came out and played a solid game, but I don't think we came with the drive needed, especially in a big game like tonight.

The Phoenix game the other night had 27 penalties in it, so that's pretty much the whole game somebody's on the power play. Believe it or not, you almost have got to forget about the score and just try and play the game as best you can with the new rule changes. I know that's hard to think about it that way, but you've got to teach yourself to adjust to the new rules as quickly as possible.

We played better offensively in the third period, but not defensively. We were inconsistent all over the field.