“Our game isn’t sexy right now, it’s not fancy. It’s just a lot of little things, and that’s usually the difference between winning and losing.

“We have six defencemen and 12 forwards each night who are doing it.”

“The more you play, the easier it’s gonna get. I thought everybody in front of me did a great job today. I didn’t really have to do much back there. Maybe that bad bounce on the PK that kicks out to the slot, but other than that, I thought everybody in front of me made my job really easy.”

“Everybody expects at this point in the season to know where you’re at and know what you need to be doing on the ice, so I feel like you can see it out there. Guys are playing the way that they know that they should be, and we’re playing great. It’s fun to be a part of outside of the ice and just being in the locker room.”

“I feel like ever since we had the conversation about just everyone stepping up a bit, it seems like everyone’s kind of just doing a little bit extra out there. The start of the game was pretty evident. You saw how fast it was and how fast we were playing, and just playing simple. That carried throughout the whole game.”

“I thought there were some good things. We know that they are a bit of a handful in the offensive zone. I thought we, for the most part, kept their opportunities to a minimum. I think we had some, not a lot, but we had some good enough chances to score. It was a low-scoring game and we didn’t convert on our opportunities.

“It clearly wasn’t the start we wanted.”

“I thought we had some good looks. It’s easy to be negative when the puck’s not going in but we’re going to keep pushing and keep moving forward.

“It’s easy to say we’re just not scoring and that’s why we’re losing. I feel like we’re doing a lot of other good things that are creating good offence, like playing well defensively, but we’re just not finding the back of the net right now.”