"I give the players credit. It's all them. They're doing the work and it started in training camp. Coming into training camp, our conditioning, our checking detail, I think they're getting rewarded right now for that hard work. It's tough going into Winnipeg and getting two points there, and then getting two points in Minnesota where they've only lost one game (in regulation), they're pretty deadly in this building. We stayed the course, it was much like the game yesterday where we bend a little bit but we didn't break, and that's a credit to our guys." -- Sabres coach Phil Housley
"When you had the 2-0 (lead) and you had the chance to make it three, and then you had another chance to make it three, and then another chance and then you let them hang around. And then the second period when you have 2-1, then (Jason) Zucker has a breakaway and we have some good chances. And then in the third when (Matt) Hendricks missed that in front, I said -- obviously I wouldn't say it out loud -- but I knew we were in trouble." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau