Say What - 'You Have To Build Somewhere'

Martin Pospisil on tonight's game in Nashville:

"This game is really important, the last game on the road before Christmas. We just have to keep playing our game. When we’re playing hard, and pretty good structure in the D-zone, I think we’re a pretty good team."

On continuing to bring a physical presence:

"Some games, it’s coming naturally. Other nights, if I’m using speed and try to be always F-1 on the forecheck, then the hits will come. I just want to bring the best every night."

Nazem Kadri on the importance of winning on the road:

"It’s about time. Absolutely. We’re going to try to get better on the road. Obviously along the way, we felt like we coulda had a few of those. Tight games, we’ve got to find a way to close them out here, in tough buildings."

On the Predators:

"They’re a vulnerable group, but they’re a veteran group too, that can bounce back. We all know as players, when things are kinda snowballing, it’s tough to stop that snowball at times. We’re going to look to have a good start, it’s not just about the start, though. We’ve got to maintain that through 60 minutes."

Ryan Huska on the recent run of games away from home:

"You have to build somewhere, and it’s not like during this stretch that every game’s been a poor game. It’s not anything like that, we just haven’t been able to stay with it in situations where we’ve needed to, we haven’t been able to maintain discipline in situations where we’ve needed to. So tonight, we’re looking for that complete game, and that’s probably the biggest thing that we’re going to ask of our team, is that we have a 60-minute mentality."

On facing the Predators tonight:

"In the NHL, there’s never a team that you’re going to play against that isn’t a very good team. These guys have a very veteran-laden team, they have a lot of players that have had success winning before. And they have, when you look at their forward group, some top offensive players and they would have one of the best defencemen in the NHL still, and their goaltender. So this is a very good team."