I was a little nervous at first, but once the game got going and I started sweating, I started feeling really good. I tried to get myself really focused (Sunday) night and (yesterday), and that seemed to help.

I was really nervous but after the first game the nervousness went away.

I was nervous before the game. Once I got into the game and started playing, I was good.

They've probably got some of the top forwards in the game. We've just got to contain them. We have to play a grinding, hard, tight style and show that we can win the one-goal games.

Sleepless nights. Other nights you wake up sweating because you're nervous and you don't know what's going to happen the next day. You can't control that stuff -- all you can control is what you do and how you perform. It's kind of inevitable that you're going to think about it. You see buddies getting cut and you see guys dropping like flies and you don't know for sure if it's you that's going to be next.

Every game it seems like we're taking 10 penalties. It's like 'uncle.' We just can't do that anymore. We're playing losing hockey.