We’re playing better, there’s no doubt about that. [The 3-0 loss in January] wasn’t a performance we’re keeping highlight reels from.

That may change, but right now we’re at the time of the year when playing games, results and standings are what’s important.

The information is that he was improving, that his vision was clearing up. Blood was dispersing, but there were still parts inside his eye that the doctors could not see and that still needed time.

We have to push back so that we’re moving up the standings by putting points on the board, rather than the other direction.

I think we have some good players, but we have to get closer to our potential.

I haven’t really thought about it at this moment. We’ll make a decision on our lineup and we’ll let you know.

We saw the job was too big for one guy and (Huet) needed some help.

He doesn’t look like a player who wants to give up his position to anybody. You have to earn the confidence of your teammates and he has done that for a while.

We’re playing against a good team, and I don’t think we ever dropped our understanding of that or respect for their team. We know that they’re a good team and that we’re going to have...

We made one or two key mistakes that cost us. That’s the story of the game, because otherwise it was pretty even out there.

We didn’t foresee that 18 months later, he’d be our No. 1 goalie. We brought him here to be the back-up, but he has got to where he is through hard work.

One-goal games are easy to hide behind. One-goal games are two goals away from winning, and that’s a lot in the NHL.

Our power play hung in there. Even though we didn’t get the ultimate reward of a goal, we had possession time in the offensive zone, we had shots, we had scoring chances. If they’re working...

We’re hot, and it’s good that we are.

Well, I don’t think looking solely at our four games with them is really a good indicator. We’ll have to play like we’ve played in some of the stretches since the Olympic break. If we...

I think our team has to concentrate on how to test (Carolina goalie Cam Ward.). Lets’ raise the shot total, the scoring chance total and get rid of any lazy or soft play around him....

We gave Jose a three-year contract last summer with the idea that he was going to remain with us. Since then, things changed.

We’re not talking in terms of winning the series; we’re talking about taking each game one at a time.

Right now, we’re in a playoff position and if we get some points in our final game, we’re going to the playoffs. The other teams can’t say that.

Right now he seems so stable and consistent. Tonight he probably made eight, 10, 11, 12 difficult saves, but it’s hard to pick them out because he’s in position, he’s in position early and he’s...

We’d seen a different team during the season. But they captured their level of play again (once) they got a goalie in there that gave them the saves they needed. They made it a lot...

We were hoping it was going to be taken care of at this arbitration and it would disappear. When it came out in the public domain, the decision to release the information that it was...

Once we got down a couple of goals I think we went into shock and at that point, really the game tonight was over. Our team stumbled hard early in the game, and really by...

That power-play goal, the first goal we scored …. was a nice message for our team that we were in the game and skate with them.

I don’t think it’s reasonable for him to be skating and feeling the way he would need to for next Tuesday. But five or six days after that, which is a pretty big chunk of...

It’ll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

We’ll have to look to our reserves for help.

We’re happy to be playing and we skated right down to the wire to get into the playoffs.

I think he’s proven over a long period of time that he’s capable of that. We were able to access that part of his play.

Mike Ribeiro demonstrated during the 2003-04 season how much of a force he can be. His creativity, his passing skills and his vision make him one of the key components of our offence.

He skated again this morning and the next step is for him to join the team and be exposed to some rough-and-tumble play. I think that’s sooner rather than later.

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn’t have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

It’s nice. But it’s just a piece of the bigger production that we’re in.

We’re not a big team compared to other teams in the NHL, but we are a quick team and I think we can handle our own in the physical areas, in front of the net...

We don’t have the luxury of being far enough ahead in the playoff race to be able to find positives when we don’t win. The results overwhelm everything else.

The other night we had lots of great scoring chances and we didn’t complete them, but tonight the scoring chances were minimized so we’ll be looking for ways to penetrate the defenses of Carolina and...

It’s difficult to replace a player on your first line. … We have other players with the same style of depth and experience as Alex and it’s up to those younger players to take his...

We had created a small space for ourselves between seventh and ninth place. When I added things up in my mind, it wasn’t instinct, it wasn’t gut feeling. It just seemed like the right thing...

We have to recognize and appreciate the experience he’s had with a very good team in Detroit over a long period of time, playing with great players in some of the best playoff competition. We...

The way both teams are going, that’s why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.

We have to be pleased with his play. He got bombarded and he stood in.

You have to enjoy when you win, that’s part of the package. We will, at some point, kind of let go of last night and turn our direction toward tomorrow night. I think that’s fine...

The swelling has to diminish before the physicians can do all the necessary tests.

If you want to build a scenario, I think it’s a pretty good one.

I didn’t see anyone looking and wondering if someone was going to show up out of the blue. It’s part of their lives. Players are in and players are out all through the season. It’s...

He happened to score the goal in the third period, which is terrific, but I think he brought another presence to our defense, an elevation in our ability to find the open man.

We have a large group of players who are coming to an age of maturity.

It’s come at a great time. We’ve been trying to take advantage of it by not backing off or being complacent. At this time of year, where we sit in our conference, those are really...

It’s an exciting time,

Something that we’ve seen in Cristobal in his normal character is that he isn’t nervous or suffer from anxiety.