It gave us a little bit more of a lead and let us kind of relax a little bit and keep pushing.

It was just a few words of encouragement. Obviously, with a player as important as him, and as well liked and respected in this room as him, just to know that he's feeling a little bit more upbeat gives a lift to the team. It was just nice that his spirits were a little higher than they were yesterday.

Because we were down we're going to take some chances and push the play a bit. We battled back hard. We were in the game, we fought hard but fell a little bit short.

You could feel in the third period that they took their game a level higher, maybe two. We just stayed the same, we were a bit flat.