All of the areas of the game that looked weak for us before were strong. Our goaltender was great. The power play was good. The penalty killing was sharp. It was a reversal of fortune for us.

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He played very well. The Vancouver game, I think, was just a little blip along the way. He was super-solid tonight. They had a number of opportunities early.

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It definitely opens up the ice a bit. It's definitely less congested out there.

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You have to give them credit for their ability to check and they knocked us off the puck and they turned over a lot of pucks. But at the same time we were turning the pucks over and it just seems like we never settled into our game even from the outset we didn't settle into out game. But I think you give them credit for giving us a little bit of a lesson.

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This was certainly not one of our better efforts. We relied on being in pretty good position defensively and we got excellent goaltending.

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I think that will all go away. There was a tendency to overpass early in his career, but he's making those decisions fine now. He's making good decisions. The one time I told him to shoot the puck, he feathered it over for an open-netter, so he knows what he's doing. That hasn't been an issue at camp.

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It's a big part of the game. If you get dominated up the middle, you don't have much chance to win, and that includes face-offs. They don't get a lot of attention by people outside the game, but people inside the game, coaches, know how important they are. To start with the puck is a huge advantage in any situation.

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At least we were trying in the third, which is more than I can say for the first two periods. At least we started trying. It was a pretty pathetic effort by our group.

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