Saku Koivu
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"Saku Antero Koivu" is a retired Finland/Finnish professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL). He began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 NHL season/1995–96 after three seasons with TPS (ice hockey)/TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga. Koivu served as the Canadiens' captain (ice hockey)/captain for ten of his fourteen years with the club, which makes him the longest captaincy tenure in team history tied with Jean Béliveau. Koivu was the first European player to captain the Montreal Canadiens.

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We know we didn't play our best, so getting two points was huge for us. For myself, it's been a while since I scored and to get the winner in overtime makes it a special night.

They don't quit. They play until the end. We got to be happy with two points. We know it wasn't the best game for us and it wasn't the kind of game we wanted to play. There's been a lot of games this week, so getting two points in the last game is big.

(Fleury) played well, but after a game like this, the bottom line is that we have to look at the way we played and the mistakes we made. If we want to make the playoffs, this is the kind of game we just can't have at this time of the year.

In the first period, we had a lot of power plays and the first two lines played a little too much. And when you don't score, you lose momentum.

I didn't have any hair anywhere for almost seven months. So now, finally, I've got some hair, I'm going to keep it.

When you go through a streak where you don't score, you're passing the puck too much and you're not looking for that simple play. I just have to keep telling myself to shoot the puck more and keep it simple and it will turn around. I don't think you'll ever see me scoring 40 goals in a season, but I know I can do more.

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

Right now, it seems that we're doing good things, the puck is bouncing for us and we're getting breaks like I did at the end of the game.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.