"I said that this morning, about the fact that if we want to start winning some hockey games from hereon in, we've got to tighten up defensively. They're going to have be 2-1, 3-2, whatever, 4-3 games. We can't get into those run-and-gun type of games and we've got to get better defensively. I thought our team after that 10-minute mark, and even before that, I don't think they had a ton but I thought we did a good job of minimizing their scoring chances. Hopefully it's something they can build on and we can move forward with." -- Canadiens coach Claude Julien
"Not desperate enough, not nearly desperate enough, and that's kind of been the message in the room, especially after today is guys got to understand the position we're in, and we do like to keep the picture small, but the last two games -- we've been good on home ice -- but we've let ourselves down here and nobody's going to feel bad for us." -- Sabres defenseman Jake McCabe