You want to keep playing, especially when you start winning. It's helped a couple of us who have been injured, but otherwise you want to keep the momentum going. Sometimes that's harder with a four- or five-day layoff.

You watch games and find yourself rooting against teams that are ahead of you. It's a tough position to be in, needing to win games and needing others to lose.

I don't think anyone enjoys giving up short-handed goals. We kept our composure and didn't let it get to us. The guys kept it going, we didn't panic.

Hopefully we're getting greedy. Two months ago, nobody would have thought we would be here.

I'm wondering why it took us so long to get started, especially in the battle we're in. It's inexcusable. We've got to get better, because there's only nine games left.

Things didn't go our way but we didn't hang our heads and we fought harder than we did the last couple of games. But it's frustrating, especially when you're up 2-1 with five minutes to go in the game.

Things fell apart and snowballed. I wish I could put my finger on it, but it's a combination of things falling apart. We gave up four goals in the third period, we can't start doing that.

It's been pretty amazing the run we've been on the past couple of months. To finish as high as fifth when so people projected us to not even make the playoffs just 2 1/2 weeks ago. It's something special. But we have bigger things to look forward to now.

It's two big points we just let slip.

They're a really good team and if you give them chances to score they're going to score eventually. We just gave them too many chances at the wrong time.