Brad Stuart Quotations

We'll take goals from whoever we can get them from and if it happens to be the defense then that's a good thing for us.

It's great. He's a big part of this team and obviously he's done great for them over there. I'm sure I'll be rooting for him (today).

We had a lot of opportunities in the second to get a lead and build on it, but we weren't able to do that. We have no one to blame but ourselves because we didn't capitalize on their six- straight penalties.

Special teams were the difference and we had a lot of chances, especially in the second, to get a lead.

We battled pretty hard five-on-five. We were right with them, maybe even better. We couldn't get going on the power play, even though we did score. We had a lot of chances.

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

They scored 30 seconds into it and we let that affect us more than it should have. That's going to happen sometimes. We've got to have the ability to shake it off. But we made it easy for them to get chances.

That organization has always played in-your-face. That's the way they play. They come early and try to get some hits. Whether they're legitimate or not, that's their style. We have to be ready for that.

We didn't have any expectations when we came here and just wanted to adjust to the new surroundings. But the last couple of weeks we have settled in on the ice and in the dressing room and our teammates are finding out what we bring as well.

It came to the point after that game where we were either going to pack it in and have a miserable couple of months or we could turn it around and have our best. It's a good sign that we chose the tough road of getting back into (the race) and clawing our way back up. We've gotten ourselves into a good position going into the break.