I didn't have my best stuff, but there are no excuses, ... I hit a guy, hung a couple of curves, and I was out of the game.

I'm pitching like [ineffectively]. There's no explanation. They've been hitting my best stuff. No excuses. There are no excuses in this game. If they hit me, they hit me.

No, there's no excuses. I don't think we played as well as we did in Montreal. I don't have any answers, I wish I did. It's not a good game. We have to keep playing hard. We owe it to our fans and to each other to play hard and keep trying to win hockey games.

They hung around. I was a little nervous. We hit a couple posts in the second period, and sometimes those games you end up losing. And we've had some tough times scoring on Saturday nights lately. But one of the key things was we didn't panic when it was 2-1. There wasn't much panic out there.

They hit a couple of baskets and we went into a shell. We didn't have a guy who demands the basketball and that's what hurt us.

Winning requires a chrystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with no excuses