Everybody in this locker room is on his side trying to help him out. Hopefully he gets everything in order and is ready for the stretch run, because he's the guy we need in the lineup.

Ed typified firefighters of this nation and the volunteer fire department by trying to help somebody before helping himself.

We have to look at it as a good point for us. We played much better defensively 5-on-5. We didn't give up many opportunities.

Just get it out of the way. Enough talking about it, enough putting pressure on yourself to score.

I just wanted him to be aware that that's the only (room on the ice) you're going to get. You've got five guys trying to hit you, then add four refs into the mix -- that's a lot of avoiding to do.

But Kipper made some big saves in the first -- we could have been down coming out of that first period. We were lucky to come out with a 1-0 lead. He made two or three big saves.