Head Coach Jay Woodcroft on the late period goals:
"I don't think they helped. I thought it was a competitive first period. We had our chances to get in front of the game, we didn't. Then to give one up in the last 30 seconds of that period was tough, but I thought we came out in the second period. We competed hard. They scored basically a goal at the end of a five on three, but we stayed in it and battled. We just made too many mistakes and this league is too hard to recover from self inflicted wounds. I thought tonight there were a lot of self inflicted wounds, pucks that were on our tape that we didn't guarantee behind the other team's defense and ended up coming back and biting us."
Woodcroft on not getting the amount of turnovers:
"The puck was on our tape. We had full possession of the puck and we didn't guarantee it out or we didn't guarantee a deep. And what ended up happening was that a good team and that is a really good hockey team over there made you pay. And for us, we're trying to find consistency in our game. And we played a really good game in Tampa. As I said, I wouldn't knock our competition level in this. I thought we competed hard. They caught a way on us at the very end there, but we competed hard. But against the top team, you can't mismanage the puck."
Connor McDavid on getting behind again vs. the Hurricanes:
"It takes a lot of energy to play catch up. You know, it's not easy on everyone. Obviously, we got to do a better job of not letting that happen."
McDavid on having to play without Evander Kane:
"Injuries happen throughout the course of the year. It's nothing new. Every team deals with that. Obviously, we're hit with it with a big guy, a good player. For us, it's next man up mentality. That's the way it's got to be. He's not the only guy that's going to get hurt throughout the year."
McDavid on the turnovers:
"Yeah, we got to protect the puck. We can't keep turning it over, especially against good teams. That's a real good team and they make it hurt when you give them chances like that. They did that tonight."