“Clearly, it’s still a huge issue. We just played the game – we didn’t play to win the game. And, we have no chance. And the players will say, and probably have already said to you, that you know what, we can fix this. When? It’s time. Some of them have been doing it for years. It’s time. We just spent three weeks, three and a half weeks of training camp dealing with these situations.

“Now, if it happened once or twice in a game, it’d be ok, but there was maybe six or seven outnumbered rushes at the end of the first period. It’s unacceptable; we’ll have to drill it back into them.” 

 “Look, everybody’s got a price to where they want to play in their market, and Kirill is worth that to us. He’s that important to us,” Guerin told The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. 

“And we couldn’t take the chance of letting him go. That’s great for those other teams, but it’s still great for us that we have him for nine years. And yeah, Jack is at $13.5 million, and that’s great. But Kirill is that important to us. If we let him go or we even flirt with it, who knows? The worst-case scenario is definitely that he leaves. It’s worse than paying him $17 million.”

“I thought our compete was terrible. Worst competing, skating, moving feet that I’ve seen.”