34 Quotes by Nicklas Lidstrom

I think he's just getting better and better as we're going down the stretch. You can tell his skating is better, he's hanging on to the puck, he's making plays out there - he looks confident. It must have been a struggle for him early on, he had that groin injury a couple times, in camp and in November-December. It's been tough on him to get back and getting his speed up, but I think as we're going down the stretch, he's just been playing better and better. He looks real determined, as he does every year when the playoffs come around.

I thought in overtime we did a lot better passing the puck around, and we were more poised. We have to be more sharp on the power play, and you can't pass up any shots, either.

Tough to say. It's tough to pinpoint what's different, really.

We stayed patient out there. We didn't really open ourselves up defensively and when we got the chances offensively, we took care of them.

We had some pressure on us from previous tournaments where we've lost in the quarterfinals.

We talked about it before to try to get to get more shots at net especially with their goalie. We heard that he might leave some rebounds coming out. And playing more straight lines, going more to the net, instead of peeling out in the corners.

Edmonton has been playing like that for the last month going into the playoffs. We were kind of the opposite.

Edmonton has been playing for their lives for a month now. I thought tonight was the first time we got up to their level of intensity, and now we can look forward to getting back to our fans on Saturday.

After Mats laid it up perfectly for me, I tried to go high to the blocker side. I hit it perfectly, I got everything on the shot. I hit the spot where I was aiming.