We had to go to the rope-a-dope a while, kind of get ourselves back in the fight, but they didn't knock us out, and I'm proud of that.

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Loren, you just kind of ride him. When he's in a zone like that, he's impossible to guard.

I think that's what cost them. They hung on and hung on like a rope-a-dope in boxing and almost beat us doing it. But I'm not afraid to play 11, 12 forwards. When you have that much depth and that much trust as a coach in your players, they feed off that trust. That's going to beat a couple of skilled guys on the ice.

He can score in a variety of ways: posting up, off the boards and on the break.

I'm surprised we were in it.