It's preferable if one guys really elevates himself and plays spectacularly, then it makes it easy night in and night out. But that doesn't have to be the case.

I am numb. The plays we were making were tragic to comical.

Our guys played well. It was a great experience. They have to get wound up to play in the bronze medal game now. That always doesn't seem that enviable when you're preparing for that game, but long-term, not everybody has an Olympic bronze medal either.

It has implications for guys we have on the wing and we're faced with what kind of tangible element we want to add for the 12th, 13th, 14th forward. We'll be choosing between power-play help, toughness and physical help, so there's a lot on the line for two or three players. We see him right now as a very viable option for us in terms of helping us 5 on 4, 4 on 3 and 5 on 3 and those are going to be significant minutes in today's game.

There's never an absolute absence of stress, and it compounds after every loss. I got up (one) day and I knew something was missing. It was stress, because we'd won a bunch of games and we were playing well.

When that happens, it's a tactical mistake on our part. We can't blame the goalie on that one.