Gerard Gallant Hockey Quotations

For two periods we were right with them. If it wasn't for the penalties I thought it was an even hockey game. Everything just went against us.

We played awful hockey in the second and third periods. We were fortunate it was only 3-1.

We had a lot of good scoring chances in the first half. Then they went up 5-2 and it's pretty hard to come back against that team. I was looking for a great finish to the hockey game, but we got into trouble and they capitalized.

We didn't show up to play for a period and a half and it cost us the hockey game. We played a great third period, but it's just one period -- we can't do it for 60 minutes. That's been our problem all season long.

We showed a lot of character coming back. We really competed hard and probably played the best 40 minutes of hockey this season.

We started out pretty sluggish and they were a hungry hockey team and really put us down early. We showed a lot of character coming back.

We were the better team tonight. We should have won the hockey game but we didn't. The guys played their tails off. I can't go in there (the dressing room) and tell them they didn't play well. They know they played well.

To be honest, Chicago outplayed us in both games. They're going through a tough time, and the hockey gods have been with us.

Once it took that long, I thought it might be a goal. I thought it might be kind of funny where one team celebrates and then they're going to turn it over and we're going to win the hockey game.

It was a great hockey game, it was our most complete game of the season. We got out to an early 3-1 lead and held on after that. Our team played very well. Marc Denis made some key saves.