"When most teams are sitting there waiting for you, you can't allow yourselves to turn pucks over and give them transition chances. That does make you tired pretty quickly if you're the team that played the night before. I think sometimes just play more of a boring game, just try to grind them down more than trading chances. Usually [trading chances] is not a good recipe, even if you are rested, but especially on back-to-backs ." -- Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik to the Capitals website on playing the second of back-to-back games
"We have to rely on our structure and play the right way for 60 minutes and not crack when it's close or we're up 1-0 or down by one goal. We've just got to stay the course and there's no way we can look ahead of this team. I know it's cliché, but we're going to take it one game at a time." -- Sabres coach Phil Housley
