They're coming in pretty fired up to take us on our home ice.

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I'd like to see us put two consistent, hard-working defensive games together against Helena. We really haven't been able to do that. It seems like we always put one together then we don't finish the job the next night. When we play our best against them, we limit their shots.

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They play an honest style of hockey. They're going to beat you at their game, and that is hard-hitting, hard-nosed hockey.

229

There were times we weren't ready for the rebound. Otherwise we'd have had two or three more.

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We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.

207

They didn't stretch like they have. I don't think they were trying to wrap and chip as much. They were respecting our offense a little bit. What helped that is we had a lot of possession down in their end.

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You could just see that deflated them, and our guys took advantage of that.

164

They're tough, they play physical, they finish hits. They'll intimidate you. They don't give up the gap well, they don't give you time. They have really good size, they have older players that lead them well.

100

He's played with (the broken thumb), that's not the issue. This week at work he took a chunk out of his finger, a pretty good chunk. They had to pull the skin back to be able to sew it up. The doctors just didn't want him using it until next Monday.

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