They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.

I need to go back to report to the president and secretary of state. The process has to be brought to conclusion at some point soon.

Momentum going into the playoff is very underrated and that's what we're striving for. It's kind of a curse, but we don't really have anyone chasing us now in our division and we've got to go out with the attitude that we want to finish first overall and win the President's Trophy.

It allowed us to kind of regroup and slow their momentum down. It wasn't like we were going to stall for the next 11 minutes. It was just a matter of us regrouping and it was like a really long timeout.

It's really gratifying to see this kind of momentum as we head for the end of the year.

They didn't get the blunt end of it.