Say What - 'Lost The Battle'

Lindholm on the game:

"Overall, I think they were more desperate than us. In the first, they were stronger on pucks and won more battles, and were better just overall. Overall today, we weren’t good enough to win the game."

On starting games on the front foot:

"We’ve got to be more hungry in the first, more hungry to get the lead, there. Once we get it, I think we’re a comfortable and mature group, to play with the lead. We’ve just got to get it."

Weegar on the difference in the game:

"We lost the battle at the net front, there were 50/50 battles I thought we could have been harder on."

On how to avoid falling behind early:

"We can start on time, start better, you know, push the pace. I thought that first 10 minutes, they dictated the pace. We should be the ones, in our home building, to dictate the pace."

Andersson on the game overall:

“We played a good third period, but we chased, they (defended) well and we chased. Managed to get one, but not the other one. Sloppy start, and after that we kind of picked our game up a little bit.”

On starting slowly:

“It’s a rivalry game, and you can’t come out on your heels. Especially when they lost last game too, we knew they were going to come out and push off the start, that’s what they did, we just weren’t really ready for it.”

Huska on the difference in the game:

"The start of the game, for me. I thought we were on our heels early on, and they started with more urgency than we did tonight."

On his club's special teams' play:

"We scored on the powerplay, which is a positive, for sure. I thought it had moments, then it had moments where it looked like the powerplay of old. But scoring two goals allows them to feel good about what they’re supposed to do, and I thought our penalty kill did a good job. That 5-on-3 could have been the difference in the game tonight."