We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our power play struggled, and that threw a lot of momentum off because it was all special teams early.

We played them pretty even for most of the game. But our execution was not very good.

I think we've seen the benefit of how we play, and the fans have come back. They like how we play and how hard we work, and it's just something you want to keep going.

The first seven minutes was as poorly as I've seen us play in a while. Our execution, our passing . . . we weren't crisp. We weren't alert. We deserved what we got.

We missed too many opportunities. We didn't convert.

We played a good third period. We probably had five or six real good chances when we had them on their heels, we had some great opportunities.