"No, I was trying to win a hockey game. I don't care if he's from Minnesota or where he's from. [Erik] Haula's a good goal-scorer, so that's why he went. If it would have been in Buffalo, he probably would have went third too, so had nothing to do with that. I felt he played good tonight and he had some good opportunities, so just comfortable going with him." -- Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant on if he used Haula in the third round of the shootout because he played for the Wild and at the University of Minnesota
"Of course it concerns me. You want to come out and jump out and have a 3-0 lead right off the bat, but it hasn't happened yet. We'll look at the tapes of both games, we'll compare and see why, and like I said, I don't have an answer for you right now. Maybe it's they want to make everything perfect. But the one thing I've found out in this league right now is you gotta skate. You gotta be able to skate. If you're not skating, you're left in the dust. We tried to make too many plays standing still in the first two periods." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on their early struggles
"It's obviously going to be a little frustrating for a day or so, but it's kind of always this way this time of year, so you get used to it. It's obviously a good time to practice. You get two real games under your belt and see where things are at, and then you go back to practice. But I think with us, we as a group know how we have to play, and when we do, we're extremely tough to beat. So I've got no doubt in my mind that we'll pick things up a little bit." -- Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk
