“A game of inches … it showed there. If that’s an inch on the other side for [Bouchard] it’s in. Not a great situation, but not over.” – Connor McDavid. 

“We’re going to process the game. We’re going to make a couple of tweaks here and there. We’re coming in with the [same] mindset as we’ve had all year long, which is we’ve got to win one hockey game.” – Jay Woodcroft. 

“He’s out, he’ll be out for the series at least, if not longer. The hit, it’s the most dangerous play in hockey. He puts him in head-first from behind, eight feet from the boards. I’ll leave it at that.” – Avs head coach Jared Bednar on Evander Kane’s hit on Nazem Kadri. 

“I don’t like it. Those are the ones that kind of give you the chills down your spine, and you’re taught from a young age that you don’t do that, and especially in that distance from the boards. It’s a dangerous play, and, yeah, I don’t know what else to say. I’m sure they’ll take a look at it. – Gabriel Landeskog on Kane’s hit.

“I was just coming in on the backcheck. Puck went wide, kind of dribbled into the corner. I know he likes to reverse hit. I was just trying to get a bump on him, that’s really all I did. Unfortunately he went into the boards awkwardly and hurt his hand.” – Kane justifying the hit.

“You lose a guy of Naz’s stature and the role that he plays, someone has to step up, if not multiple guys,” said Bednar. “His role will be filled by committee. I mean, that’s how big of a player he is for us. It could be one guy one night and a different guy the next. I’m comfortable with it. Obviously it’s a huge loss but it’s out of our control. So we’ve got to move on and next man up mentality and we’ve been doing that all year.” – Bednar on Kadri being out for the seires and possibly longer.