“When you’re missing a key player, somebody really important to your team, it just seems like everyone just steps their game up. They galvanize and they play together, and that was tonight. Throughout our lineup, how many guys really played one of their best games? It was tonight.

“Obviously, we’re missing Leon, and we definitely like to have him here, and we’re thinking about him and his family and what’s going on right now. But we’ll definitely welcome him back.”

“We felt decent about Thursday, but when you don’t get the result, obviously there’s lots you feel like you can change. And luckily we didn’t. We just kind of stuck with our game and played. It started defensively, and once we got into the offensive zone, we created chances and played off one another, not forcing things. So there are a lot of good things, and we gotta keep it going into tomorrow.”

“We just have too many mental lapses throughout 60 minutes, and it costs us. Nobody likes to lose. We’ve talked about it within the room. Certainly don’t want to get complacent where we’re at, feel sorry for ourselves. It’s just a recipe for disaster. Come in the next day, get to work. Just got to stay positive.”

“Go the net. Get everything to the net. We’ve been really simplifying our game. It’s not just tonight, it’s been the last handful of games that we’ve been really working at trying to get one to go in, and I think we’ve played really well. We saw a few going tonight, so hopefully that gives us all a little bit more confidence.”

“[Savoie] is very skilled. People haven’t seen it yet. We’re just trying to really find the right balance between letting that skill shine and playing the game the way it needs to be played for our team.”

“I like where our team’s at right now. Everybody’s stepping up. We miss Leo, and we wish him the best, as he and his family are going through a lot right now, so obviously, we were playing for him as well. A big win today.”

“The second period was really good for us, and I thought throughout the game we played well. Even the Islanders game that we lost, I thought as a whole, we played a pretty solid game. So we just want to continue this momentum, and tomorrow’s going to be a tough game. Back-to-backs are always hard, so it’ll be tough.”