The new rules might have had an effect, but I had good position and it's tough for a right-hand shot to get around me.

This was a big game and big two points for us. Of course we were looking at Atlanta. We saw the score on the board there at the top. It was a crazy game.

Everything's positive in our dressing room. We don't think in terms of having lost today's game. We just look at the effort we put in during the second and third period, and tomorrow we have to do the same thing from the first minute.

It was four goals on four shots. A game like this sometimes is once in a career.

I had a meeting with Bob and he told me I wasn't playing. Then I came back in the afternoon and he told me I was going to suit up. Luckily, it went well for me.

I was excited, but I thought he still might not take me because we have a lot of good players. And last year, I had a good season (third in scoring in the Czech league) but I still didn't go to the world championships.