We’re right near the bottom of the league in offense and as forwards, we take it personally. If you look around the room, every single one of us has more to give and wants to...

We do think we’re going to be a really competitive club and we want to be one of the top clubs, but we know it’s not going to be easy, … We’re not going to...

He’s a top D-man in the league. He obviously was a pretty big boost out there for them.

It’s going to bea great battle, no question. I’m really looking forward to it. Even though we weren’t two of the top teams, they were always some pretty good battles. And I think this year...

I really like the position of our team, … We’re a young team that has a young core that’s still intact and now we’re one of those teams that’s going to benefit from having free...

I think definitely all the way around the league there’s more parity. The movement throughout the league has been exciting to watch as a player and a fan.

That one wasn’t so funny because he got hurt.

[In exchange for the cap, the players get more control over their rights and a pension three times larger than the one under the previous deal and easier to attain.] Before, our rights were we...

We knew they’d raise their game. They’re one of the top teams in the conference and we didn’t match them after they started coming.

In our last couple of games, we’ve just been a bit sloppier than what our game is and we’ve given up way too many goals. We’ve got to get back to doing what we do...

I’m sure he didn’t want that, either. He was in there battling. Personally, I had a bunch there in the first I’d love to have back.

We didn’t like the way we woke up this morning and saw they had jumped ahead of us. That’s what makes these back-to-backs so much fun is if you lose, you get a chance to...

They were more desperate than us off the start and we didn’t match it. It was that first period where we were very flat and they were good. They got out ahead of us and...

Our special teams are getting better and we still want to keep moving in both categories, … We’re moving the puck and doing the things we want to do.

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

I think our product will be better.

Kipper, he’s played like that all year. He’s been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

We had confidence but the first game of the series is a huge win for us,

I love playing here. There have been some growing pains over the years, and I want to be here for the good times, and I think they’re coming; I really believe in what the ownership...

It was sure nice to see it go in, being my first in five. I just shot low post.

It isn’t one thing. Look at all aspects of our game. It all needs to improve.

Winning at home and scoring, it always feels good,

It was great to see that go in. He’s got a big shot. I don’t think anybody can stop that. Especially that overtime goal.

We’ve played a lot of games lately and it was good to get a win.

There’s a lot of parity. We know that any team can beat any team.

We were a lot better offensively. It was great start. It was a big boost for us. It was nice to have a shot right back at the Avalanche after they beat us.

In playoffs, I think home-ice advantage is not as big as it is in the regular season. I think everybody’s prepared. There are no tired legs or anything like that.

That’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen,

After the first period, it was anybody’s game. In the last game [Thursday], they out-competed us and deserved to win. In this game, our power play out-competed their penalty kill.

That’s a nice change,

I’ve never been part of such a quick goal from the start of the period. I’ve seen it a few times by other teams watching on TV and stuff. Seeing it go in was definitely...

We’ll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

We knew they would raise their game and we didn’t match it after they started coming at us. It’s a matter that later we’ve got to be better. I don’t know if it’s bearing down...

To be a low scoring team like we are and to get the number of wins we have, he’s easily the biggest reason. The fans were letting him know tonight and us as players, we...

When you get that close and then you hear the other team, the other fans celebrating to ‘Simply The Best’ and ‘We Are The Champions’, that hurt. It hurt a lot. We didn’t know who...

He had to do that, because it was going in. I was right behind the net watching it, and Chuck would have had that one.

Denis made a good save on that one in overtime. Obviously I probably should have chipped it up. It would have been nice to see that one go in.

As a group, we do spend a lot of time on buses, at lunches, and politics does come up. I don’t know if we know what we’re talking about.

The company he’s in — I just saw something on TV the other day — it’s pretty impressive. It’s not just his goals. His physical play, his composure … it’s his whole game. He’s been...

I don’t know. I have had some success, been able to score a few goals. It’s nothing I can put my finger on. I wish I could carry that over.

The first couple of games we were a little tight. Tonight we were more relaxed, more determined and enjoying the playoffs. This is what it’s all about.

I think it’s unfair,

He was great. He made some very big saves. I have seen him play before and he is a big player.

That’s a nice change, … You can pretty much the start the season in every city in the NHL and believe you have a shot at the playoffs and that certainly wasn’t the case before.

Looking over my career, unfortunately, I haven’t had the greatest first 10 games,

It’s like the eve of the first day of school,

People are more in a party mode, festive mode.

They’ve always been one of the best teams at puck possession and when you’re not moving your feet, it looks there like they’re playing with us. That’s not even close to our best.

Being the only black player on my team growing up, I dreamt just like everybody else to be in the NHL, … When I would say it, some other kids — not trying to be...

It feels really good in our locker-room. It’s been a lot of tough games and we’ve played some really good teams,