Out front is the place to be, but you still are not safe, ... There is always lapped traffic and sometimes you can't tell the difference no matter where you are on the track.

Kraig was running a great line up there and we hadn't gotten into lapped traffic yet,

I've been here and started in the back. It doesn't matter where you start, we'll have some good pit stops and be all right.

You have to get a lot of traffic in front of the guy's face so they can't see the puck. And you have to make sure you take as many shots as possible. That's going to be our strategy.

Then, at the end, the lapped cars were really tough to get around on the restarts and that got me way behind.

He (Malhotra) put the puck on the net and we had traffic in front of the net. It was one of the few times that we had bodies in front of the net tonight. The guys worked hard for it.