My hat goes off to both of them. It was a heavyweight fight on both sides. ... I didn't think it was going to end.

He works harder than any athlete I've ever been around as far as off-season conditioning goes. He's a maniac . . . I see him playing another three years no question. He could be our ( Julio ) Franco .

I don't think that we as a group worked as strong early in the game as they did, and that was the difference. If you look at a team like Los Angeles, they are successful because they are pulling together in the same boat. Everybody is going in the same direction, everybody knows their responsibility and does their job.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

Blake takes a nice shot, and I think that changed the momentum of the hockey game. We just couldn't find our way back into it.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.