“Having some adversity, missing some guys, is OK for a team, as long as we have guys who are capable of stepping up and playing better. I believe we do, so we should be all right.

“I liked how we came out and played most of the third period. I thought we simplified our game, played more tenaciously. We were a lot more direct.”

“I don’t know how many games I’ve had on St. Patrick’s Day, but I’ll take any sort of luck I can get, however it comes. Everyone says it’s cliché for everyone to chip in, but it really is true.

“When offence doesn’t come as easily, it takes being responsible with your play. It doesn’t even mean you need to score that many. It takes what it takes, whether it’s scoring five or winning 1-0.”

“We talked about how no one guy is going to replace him. It’s something we’re going to have to do collectively from here to the end of the season and see where that takes us.

“I thought tonight we did a good job responding at different points in the game, and contributions like that offensively are big.”

“Every game is a playoff game now. Every game matters. We need to be at or near our best every night. If we’re not picking up points, someone else is.

“We’ve still got games in hand, and we play them again, plus Anaheim a couple of times. There are more four-point games coming. The message is simple: every game is a playoff game for us right now.”

“It’s puck management. Turnovers in the neutral zone force us to defend more and spend too much time in our zone. Against a team like Edmonton, if you don’t have the puck, it’s going to hurt you. We kind of fed into that tonight.”