We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be a very disciplined, committed, hard-working team and in your face.

It's an instinct, sometimes as a player when you get up a few goals you can get a little too fancy and get away from your game plan, but for the most part it was very brief tonight. We kept the puck going ahead tonight. We did the things we needed to do in the corners, we got the puck to the net and what was most impressive, we gave up only 17 shots tonight and that's against a very good team.

I might be a stuck record on that, but our only focus right now, is to get ourselves ready for [today]. We'll worry about the second game when it comes.

He's a heart and soul guy and when you have a team that is perhaps lacking some experience at the national level, which obviously we are, you need a real strong character and real strong person mentally that's totally committed to the way we want to play. He's probably a huge reflection of myself.

We're young, but we're good.

I'm not making any bones about it: we have two or three guys who make a lot of money on this team, ... You know who they are and it's time they stepped up and took the team to another level.