We were up 2-1, and both of our losses at home were tough to swallow. I thought that even the sixth game was our best game of the playoffs, a game we felt that we should've won. It was difficult, but we had a few injuries that hurt our chances. The thing about Edmonton is that there is no better place to play playoff hockey. When it's over a prematurely as it has been in the last couple of years it just leaves everybody wanting more and wondering why more hasn't been delivered. We're starting to get impatient and hopefully we can deliver.
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It's hard to feel like you have proven anything when you're wallowing through the disappointment right now. But when we analyze it tomorrow, we'll have accomplished a lot of the things that we needed to win the hockey game. We put ourselves in a position to win the hockey game. Our confidence won't have taken a hit certainly going into the game on Sunday.Craig MacTavish
At least we got some physical penalties. We've been taking a lot of penalties, but at least there were some aggressive ones. Special teams have been winning us games, but their penalty kill did a very good job against our power play.
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We'd talked to them about the importance of getting some offence.
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You have to give them credit for their ability to check and they knocked us off the puck and they turned over a lot of pucks. But at the same time we were turning the pucks over and it just seems like we never settled into our game even from the outset we didn't settle into out game. But I think you give them credit for giving us a little bit of a lesson.
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You keep emphasizing the importance of the games.
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We thought it would be a good idea to get the guys away and work out stuff for the beginning of the year. We wanted to get through camp with the same goals and a singular purpose.
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