We needed the last bounce to get the puck in, and we couldn't seem to get it. It seemed like today the puck managed to stay out of the net no matter what we did.

I think we just weren't getting the bounces on Friday. The puck just seemed to bounce straight to their stick. We weren't finishing well and the puck just wasn't going into the net. Things just didn't go our way.

Of course it's sad, but it gave us the feeling that the ref was after us, and we started concentrating more on what he did than on our game plan. That's a bad thing. It can't happen.

I bounce around wherever I'm needed,

It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,

We've had other games where we felt we needed to bounce back after a poor performance, or we're trying to put two in a row together, but early in the season, you can make up for those. This is our first big game. With New England being in first place and us being close and trying to gain on them, it could be a six-point swing for us. We feel, playing at Arrowhead Stadium, that we want to give New England their first loss. They're in first place, and that's where we want to be.