The goal deflated us, but we didn't grab a hold of ourselves; we went the other way and it snowballed on us. It's a time of the game where we have to help Johnny out and get back in the game, and we didn't do that tonight and that's why it went that way. It's not good enough right now.

The guys are all back here in Tampa and we're real excited, ... The city's been unbelievable, very enthusiastic. It's pretty cool to see, the atmosphere hasn't changed.

The hard part for us was getting in. We feel now we can start over here and try to do something. We have proven we can win in the playoffs.

You can release all the oil you want from the SPR, but to make gas, you need refineries.

I don't want to say that we have their number, ... They're a good team and they can beat anybody any night.

He's stolen a couple games for us already.

Canada is Canada. We all talk about how we could have two teams and we probably could. We all know the next three months of the NHL season will tell the tale.

Clearly, the higher prices go right to the bottom line for our producers.

In the NHL these days, you don't get surprised by too much. When we went and got Cory Stillman , you could kind of see it coming that something might not work out. We still had hopes that they would get both of them signed -- that would've been really good. That's the business of hockey right now, and other teams go through the same thing every year.

In the past we've found ways to win. And we have to start doing that real quick here.