If the owners are playing a high-stakes game of chicken, they'd be better off playing it with anybody else in the world besides hockey players. Because of all sports, we're probably the most stubborn, pig-headed players.
You didn't see the true Red Wings tonight, but the main thing tonight was to keep our game on track for the playoffs.
It's like a boxing match. We win a game up there and they train a little harder to play against us down here. The next time we play them we will train harder.
Over half the game was special teams, and that leads to a lot of trouble to get the flow of the game going. I think we had quality chances to get to it ... It's something we're going to have to work on.
I just want to get back in and back up to speed. Maybe I won't be there right away, but after playing the last 10 games or so, I'd definitely expect to be 100 percent for the playoffs.
Obviously we want to put some wins together, but really it's more important that we start playing well again. Out of our last four games, at least that was a better effort. We played a really solid game against one of the really good teams in the league.
You know it's all around the league right now ? the Predators are playing teams that are not in the playoffs. They should walk in. Honestly, sometimes those are as hard as games against teams you're battling for playoff spots.
We know we don't want to go back to Nashville down two games. They won a game in our building and we have to find a way to do the same thing here.