“There’s a lot of belief in that room. They’ve been in some pretty poor situations, and this team never quits. They’re resilient and have a lot of fight left. That’s when we’ve seen the best from them. But we don’t have room for error anymore.”

“It went into overtime, but we’ve got to stay out of the penalty box. That certainly helps, and we just need to make a couple more defensive plays.”

“I thought we did a good job of putting ourselves in some pretty good spots, but we just didn’t find a way to get it done. We’re in a hole, no doubt about it. We’ve got to find a way to get a win at home.”

“Obviously, the PK goals hurt. They score two on the power play, and they tie it on a point shot that gets banged in. But there were some good signs.”

“It’s a battle in the corner and the puck gets thrown to the middle. It’s just an unlucky bounce that goes off a skate, ends up between my legs, and kind of dies behind me.”

“It’s tough. We were looking at it in there, and you can’t really tell. You could probably go either way with it. There are going to be opinions, but being on the losing side of it, we didn’t think it went in.”

“Tristan played really well. Two of the goals, one went off our defenceman’s stick and the other was an unfortunate bounce off a skate. He made some big saves, and that’s what we wanted from him. It was a solid performance.”

“On the overtime goal, it’s a failed clear and they throw a puck to the net. Unfortunately, it goes off a defenceman’s skate and in. It was very close, and I thought we might get away with it. I’ve seen plays like that before where they can’t prove it went in, but obviously they saw it differently.”

“We’re up 3-1 and every game has been a toss-up. We’ve hung in there and found different ways, with different guys, against an excellent team. Now we’re in a position where we can just focus on the next game.”

“It starts with a good forecheck and a strong offensive-zone shift. Just putting pucks on net and getting to the front, and I was able to get rewarded.”

“Before the draw, I remembered my college coach saying that a 60 per cent of overtime winners come off face-offs. It’s a big play to win that draw and bear down. I was trying to go back door to [Chris Kreider] and it ended up taking a lucky bounce off their defenceman’s skate.”