SAY WHAT: 'WE'VE GOT TO RE-GROUP'

MIKAEL BACKLUND ON HOW THE GAME PLAYED OUT:

ON RE-SETTING FOR FRIDAY:

"We've got to re-group here, re-focus. We're not happy we're losing and good teams don't lose three in a row, we've got to find a way to bounce back tomorrow. They have a good powerplay and ... we've got to come out with a lot of energy, which I know we will. A lot of guys, hometown game. Should be a fun game tomorrow, but it's a big game for us to set up this road trip. It's a long trip and it's going to be a lot better being 1-1 than 0-2."

JACOB MARKSTROM ON HIS NIGHT:

"I don't know, maybe, 25-30 shots and three goals? Not good enough. I think that's a pretty easy, simple way to assess it. You want to keep it at two or under. They got some bounces there to get their second one, and in the third, I need to come up with a couple saves to keep it tied and give the guys a chance to win. I'm disappointed, for sure."

ON PUTTING THIS ONE PAST HIM:

"We've got another game tomorrow. You can't really dwell on it. But tonight's going to suck. No one was happy with the game against San Jose the other night and this is a long road trip and we wanted to start with a win and I thought we had the game where we wanted (it), but we couldn't finish it and they got three goals."

DARRYL SUTTER ON NEW-LOOK LINES:

"Just trying to shake some guys up that have struggled lately and try to set goals for these guys to achieve in the short term, three or four games, five games at a time. Some guys have fallen off in that. Sometimes it gets a little stale for them or something like that, but I want to get Sean going a little bit and move some other guys around and get a little more offence out of it. It's what I said a little while ago - when we were scoring three, three-and-a-half goals a game, it's not a sustainable number. It's just flat-out not. The league doesn't work like that. So, what are we, 12 games in now? We need a little more offence."

ON TIGHT GAMES:

"I think we're a team that didn't make the playoffs last year and we're trying to stay in the face. There's not enough difference in the league. I'll tell you that right now. Every night is a tough game, and it's tough. We're a team that's not going to score a lot, so you've got to a lot of grinding and banging away. I thought we did more of that tonight than we did the last couple games."