We played a little better, but we still have critical defensive breakdowns. You can’t give a good team as many chances as we did.

I don’t know what the reason is, but we’ve been getting dominated here lately. This is the NHL, and we’re foolish if we thought we were going to start picking up easy wins. It’s going...

Does one guy play against Germany and another against Canada? You can play against Germany and someone else and get two shutouts, or you could play against Canada, give up four goals and play great....

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I’m happy with the medal.

It was right on the edge,

We scored that goal. It’s not like they gave it to us.

Brendan Witt is playing great. He blocks shots. He is also a leader. With him in the lineup the whole defense has the pressure taken off of them. We have a lot of young guys...

It’s tough to establish yourself. You just can’t relax for a second. … We’ve been playing well. Sometimes you get good breaks at home, but to win on a consistent basis, you have to be...

You can’t stop 40 or 45 shots a night and expect to win. Detroit has five Hall of Fame players on the team. You can’t give them 45 shots.

You’ve got to protect the middle of the ice. The guys on the boards are not a concern. It’s hard to win when you’re making mistakes like that.

When one guy makes a mistake, it’s like dominoes from there. We have to be better as a team and as individuals.

I play a lot in the NHL, and I’m tired. At some point you need a little rest. I’ve played almost 50 games. This would be six games in eight days, or something like that.

I’m just trying to stop the puck. There’s nothing fancy about it.

I wasn’t too busy (last night), … They were missing a few of their guys but I thought I did pretty well.

It’s a confidence-booster for everybody to win at their rink.

I didn’t do very good. But our guys came through and scored a bunch of goals and that’s why we won.

But there are other teams that should be better, too, because of all the changes that have taken place. You look at the league right now and to be honest, I couldn’t tell you who’s...

Obviously you don’t want to play the game from behind, but we basically had the knife to our throat.

We have improved our game and the results are showing. We have been playing much smarter.

They said it’s perfectly curable and I should be fine in six months. It’s tough timing for the playoffs for me. But that’s something you don’t worry about when you think about your health.

We had been scoring a lot of goals and maybe we felt like we just couldn’t lose. We started playing loose, but now we’re not scoring four or five goals a game per night. And...

I think we have as good of a chance for gold as we did before today. This doesn’t put you out of the tournament.

It’s always a big momentum shift to give up a short-handed goal. Naturally, we showed a lot of life after that.

On Wednesday, every play, every minute, every shift counts, … That’s what we’re trying to get ready for.

Such a good couple nights for us. We did it again, we give them chances on the power play. They had like three posts it could have been different. It was our night. We had...

You’ve got to play with urgency and we aren’t playing with urgency right now. That’s why we’re a step late everywhere. That’s why teams are scoring on us. It’s a long season and there are...

A couple of times it was by my own players. But I’ve got to learn to deal with traffic. Maybe that’s something I need to address in practice, just fighting through screens.

We’re not playing well defensively. Facing 30 or more scoring chances a game, something’s going to go in sooner or later.

For me, personally, bronze is a great result even if I’m sure that if we played better with Sweden, we would’ve been on the ice (Sunday).

There’s no way of knowing before you get there. Everything else would be just words and not really based on any evidence. We’ll all find out.

Jason was all by himself. A breakdown like that decides the game.

You do it all the time. People get traded and you play against your ex-teammates all the time, so you’re used to it.

From every angle that you look at it, it was important. You want to separate from ninth place as much as possible. It seems like everyone is winning, so we need points.

It’s comfortable to know you did it, but the work doesn’t stop, … We have the whole season in front of us. Now I’ll worry about the next game.

I’m definitely going to fight for the job. It’s up to the coaches, we’ll see what happens. I definitely feel I have a chance. Usually in this tournament it’s whoever is playing better at that...

Shootouts are fun if you win, but tough if you lose.

I was as surprised as everybody.

We’re not in the business of figure-skating. It doesn’t matter if you do a little better tonight. You play for points, and we just didn’t get it done.

Playing for the bronze medal is hard, very hard.

I’ll try to do what I can to help the team. Mace has certainly helped me the past few years, so this is his chance to show everyone in the NHL he can play.

That’s just the way shootouts are. It’s kind of hard to get used to shootouts right now.

We have a good team. This can all be forgotten soon.

It’s a big play. Tie game, third period, you score short-handed, definitely it’s a big momentum shift to your side.

Maybe there are going to be more shots because of power plays and stuff like that, … It’s a good thing. The more shots you get, the more difference you can make.

We were able to get four points in two games against the Red Wings on the road, and historically that’s never been the case. We definitely want some respect and I think we’ve achieved that....

Things went their way. I think they scored on every chance they had.

It’s a win and they’re not always going to be perfect games. They were better than us but we found a way to win.

In a 2-2 game, there’s no way their guy should be walking down the middle of the ice with 10 seconds to shoot, deke or do whatever. Breakdowns like that kill you.

They say the worst lead in hockey is a two-goal lead going into the third period. You can’t sit back and let them keep coming at you. I thought we did a good job of...

It could have been a lot worse. If they didn’t detect it, the blood clot could have got loose, and then I would have been in big trouble.