“You’re disappointed anytime you lose. You look for the negatives. You look to critique the wins or the things that we didn’t do to get to win, but I thought we had some chances. Stu came up with some big saves, but overall, I thought we played a game where more often than not, we come out victorious and are feeling good about ourselves.”

“The NHL is about winning games, and you want to win, but in the long run, I prefer that we play the right way and we play the right way and that we’re going to win more often than not. Tonight, I thought we had an effort in a game where we should come away with the two points more often than not, and we’ve had some games this year where we were terrible, and we won games just by our goaltender being better or special teams, but there wasn’t much to like about it tonight.”

“They’re a good team and they’re playing really well. You gotta get to the net. It’s the defence’s job to box you out. It’s your job to get to the net. I thought we had some looks there, some wooks on the backside. Sometimes, when you throw it there, it hits something and goes in; sometimes, you throw it there and it goes clean through. Tonight, it felt like a night where we were getting stuff there, but we weren’t getting the second chances.”

“Over our last two games, we’ve given up one goal. So for a team that’s struggled to defend, that’s pretty good. If you give up one goal in two games, most of the time, you’re winning both. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find one tonight, but if we continue to play like that defensively, we’ll find our chances.”

“Kudos to him, he was solid back there. But I thought we had chances. I thought we had looks. It’s just that things aren’t coming easily right now for us, so it’s about putting your head down and continuing to work. But if we keep playing like we did tonight, I think more often than not, we’ll like the result. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t our night.”

“This is pretty fun. We’re playing great. The way we defend and our structure in our D-zone right now, the way guys sacrifice themselves, it’s a team effort. The way we’ve been playing in our own zone especially has been nothing else but spectacular.”

“I just can’t thank my teammates enough, nothing would be possible without them. I’m just trying to do my job and making a lot of saves, but you can’t do that without the way we’ve been playing tonight and every other game.”

“I thought it was a really highly competitive game by both teams. I thought as the game went on, they had some pushes and I thought we did a good job defending and we got some good goaltending, a lot of blocked shots. [The Oilers] are always a tough team to play against and I’m glad we found a way to win.”