Ian Laperriere Quotations

Poor guy, every time he plays, he's in a shootout. He played real well and saved the game at the end. I feel for him. He doesn't play that much and we can't find a way to win for him. You want to get two points, but we'll take the one.

We've got to pick it up in St. Louis and Chicago. We all knew it was going to be a challenge going down to the end. Everybody's got to pick their game up.

He's always been a great goalie. It's just that he played in the shadow of Eddie Belfour when he was in Dallas. I know guys that have had tough times in the playoffs. They like to rebound and show the world they are playoff players. He is a more mature goalie now.

Our top guys are character guys, and they never quit. It's contagious.

It doesn't matter who we play. We need points, that's the bottom line. It's crucial right now.

When you're on the power play you get the momentum rolling for you, even when you don't score. You drain the guys who are killing penalties.

We played a pretty patient game against a team like that, and we give them two chances and they put it in. We didn't sit back. Turco made great saves. It could have been 4-0 at one point. He made saves here and there. We kept putting pressure on them.

When you keep a team like that in the game, that's what is dangerous. They just need a couple chances and they'll win the game like they did (Thursday night).

We got a little turnover. Richardson is playing really well for us. It was a great feeling to score here. I'm a Montreal native and everyone at home was watching.

Especially in the playoffs, it's so tight as a forward you always have a guy on you. When you got the 'D' joining the rush, it kind of opens up things. All those guys have been playing great offensively.

There's pressure. Hopefully, it's going to bring out the best in everybody here, the pressure that we have on our shoulders right now.

That's what they want with eight games against the same team. That's what they got out of us, a good rivalry, it's good for the game. People like fighting, it just happened to be me tonight.

You can't just sit on a lead and expect to win those games. That's what we did, and they came at us pretty hard. We got at least one point, but that's not what we came here for.

This is what the NHL wants. It's stressful for everyone around here, but that's OK.

They played well, they took advantage of the power play and they had a couple bounces going their way. That's the playoffs. We had that in the first three games. I don't think they played bad in the first three games, we just had the bounces going our way, and tonight was their way.

They're (among the best) in the league for a reason. They just put pressure on.

At least we've made it fun. We've played some games out there, so it's nothing like boot camp or anything like that. It's more like it's been good to get in shape, but at the same time you can make it fun, and that's what they've been doing. It's getting old right now. We want to get back at it and play.

I try to chip in once in a while,

It's a good team win, but not too much time to celebrate that. We're going to Calgary and get right back at it.

It's not like we've been playing bad for the last month, but we didn't put in an effort like we did tonight for 60 minutes, and it's great to see. We just put the working boots on.

Everybody around the league, every market, feel they have a chance to be in the playoffs and do good. I think that's great for the game, but it's stressful for everybody around here.

They were a little more desperate than us tonight. But it's the playoffs. You just can't give them any life, so we have to go into their building and win there.

The intensity is going to carry over (tonight), but points are way too important to do something stupid out there.

I'm not talking about him. That's what he wants, and he doesn't deserve it.

I had a good chance, but it was a nice play by them to make the save.

By killing all those penalties, momentum built our way. That's the way they call the game right now and you've got to deal with it. If they want to call everything, I'm fine with it.

You can see how close it was for all these teams to get into the playoffs. Anybody really had a chance to beat anybody. The league wanted pretty much an even league and that's what they got. I think the No. 8 seed (in the playoffs) can beat the No. 1 and the No. 7 seed can upset the No. 2 seed and you can just go down the list. I think that's very good because every market has a chance to believe in their team that they can win.