“They came out hard. They’re a desperate team. We started getting it together later in the game. Big fight for (Frederic) to get us going (late in the second). I think that really rallied us together.”

“I think we’re all getting mental right now in the sense that it’s in everybody’s head. But at the end of the day, we have a job to do. We have to play, and our best players have to be our best players in a game like that. Our role players have to play their roles. I don’t care what the scenario is, when you’re out on the ice, you’re playing a game, something you’ve done your whole life, and we’re in a situation like that, however you go about it, you have to find a way to get yourself over the hump.”

“We’ve all been in this situation that the Jets are in. When you’re not winning games, it’s hard to close a game out.”

“It just seems like right now, that wall is 100 feet high. We’ve got to knock it down with an ax or something. We’ve got to get there. I think you’re just searching for that one, right? It’s not easy. Everyone is trying to do the same thing in this league. Everyone is trying to win.”

“Aside from about five minutes at the end of the first period, I thought we played pretty well. I liked the fact that we were down 3-1 and we stuck with it. We didn’t generate very much in the second period, but we still pushed and were finally able to get a second goal at the end of the second period.”