Ryan Smyth Game Quotations

It's like their gold medal game and they found a way to uplift their game. It was not a walkover.

It was one bad break. We played a decent game and lost on a bad break in double overtime. That's playoff hockey. Move on.

Once you got a lead that late in the game you've got to do the smart things. I'll take the blame on that one. I turned it over and it ended up in our net.

In a game like this, it comes down to a lucky break here or there. And that's what happened.

We can't sit and dwell on it. We've got two games left. We dug ourselves a deeper hole and we have to find a way out of it.

You can't dwell on it now. We've got two games left. We just dug ourselves a deeper hole and we've got to dig out of it.

I don't know why we weren't ready. Especially for that big of a game this late in the season. I have no answer for you.

He's coming close to playing 600 games in the NHL and those are things that you have to be able to put behind you. He did that and I thought he played really well in Game 2.

I'm not going to change my game because of an incident like that. I'm sure he might change his actions. He'll want to get a win out of here. He'll take that as motivation.

The new guys we got are settling in and everyone came up big tonight. Now, it's just a matter of keeping it going. We've got some big games in front of us and this (win) is going to help with the momentum, that's for sure.

The grit that we have, the depth that we have, the intensity that we have throughout the hockey game - that's crucial. It's believing and knowing that we can fight through a little adversity and find ways to win.