"It was another home opener, we knew we had to be playing much better, with a much better pace and work way harder than we did yesterday and it paid off. You could see guys were really coming back, guys had good sticks, we were blocking shots, making plays, so I thought it was a good 60-minute effort." -- Bruins captain Zdeno Chara on responding after losing Wednesday
"It's not so much our younger players, I thought our younger players played pretty well. Some of our veteran guys, they've got to make a choice. They've got to play the right way or they're going to come back and play defense and spend energy where we don't want to spend energy. We want to spend our energy going forward. Yes, we're going to have to defend at times … but for the most part, we were our own worst enemy tonight." -- Sabres coach Phil Housley