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DARRYL SUTTER ON MANGIAPANE-BACKLUND-COLEMAN:

ON BACKLUND'S HOT PLAY:

"He's competitive. Difference between defending and checking and watching and going. That's the difference."

Coach on team philosophy, facing the Leafs and more

MANGIAPANE ON THE LINE'S SUCCESS:

"Our line's been playing pretty good with Backs and Colesy. We've got to keep it going tonight. We're keeping it simple right now and it's working for us."

ON GETTING THE WIN LAST NIGHT:

"It's important. Early on we wanted to get our legs going, chip pucks in, skate, hit, do simple things. We came away with the lead in the first period. We wanted to come out hard and it worked out well for us."

ELIAS LINDHOLM ON TKACHUK'S BEAUTY GOAL:

"I don't have any that's for sure. I try to keep it simple out there. … It's more of a standard thing now, I think, Him going between his legs. It's obviously fun. It makes the sport a little more interesting and stuff like that. It's definitely fun to watch and like I said, I'm not able to do that kind of stuff."

"We're keeping it simple right now"

ON THE TOP LINE'S TORRID PACE:

"It's obviously fun to get mentioned. I think it's good. All of us want to have fun and help the team as much as possible, help the team any way we can. It's fun to be mentioned and it's a lot of games left and we've got to keep it going."

ON BUILDING OFF LAST NIGHT:

"The biggest key for us last night was to keep it simple and do the right stuff. Coming off a break, those little things matter. Just get the pucks in, no turnovers and stuff like that. Be physical and kill plays. That's what we did right in the first. Obviously, it worked out pretty well for us."