I'm not a big worrier simply because it doesn't do anything for you. If I thought it was productive, I'd worry. It's a matter of getting our hockey club to play consistent hockey.

You can play defense as long as you are aggressive and forcing, and I thought we did a good job of that in the first half of the game and not so much in the second. We had a lot of penalties, and I think that kind of reared its head in the third period because we looked a little tired. We fell behind 2-0, and a lot of that we did on our own, and we have to correct that to even the series on Thursday.

I'm not a big worrier simply due to the fact that it doesn't do anything for you. It's a matter of getting our hockey club to play consistent hockey, and that's what we have to do in Game 3.

You can take good, aggressive penalties, but we're not doing that. We're either overzealous, or we're carrying our sticks carelessly and not playing with smarts. We just have to have better energy combined with brains, and we're not getting that right now.

We're getting a little better as far as not coughing the puck up as much. When we do, that's when we tend to give up more shots. That's something that has gotten better generally as the season has gone on.

For his first time skating in eight or nine days, and I gave him a lot of information late (Monday) afternoon, he did a good job and competed well for us. He brings some veteran presence and calmness and positioning.