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We didn't do a good job defensively tonight. We were always missing by half a second.

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We know what happened ... when they knocked us out. There is always a rivalry against these guys. It's going to be special.

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 Rivalry

When he's on, he's the most dominant player in the league.

Patrik Elias

 

We don't want to pinch ourselves now. We're feeling good about the game we have been playing. We know the series we played, they had a couple of injured guys but that doesn't take anything away from the game we played or what we accomplished.

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I don't know if I ever said that to myself. There were a couple of times that I felt OK and then all of a sudden I started feeling like (garbage).

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We were warned before the game that they are going to keep calling the penalties the way they did in the regular season. This was more emotional today because we know what's on the line.

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I knew it was going to be for a couple of weeks and that's what it's been. I missed about 10 months before that. This was quick.

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He was just huge. I was afraid of him. Here I was a 175-pound guy coming here and this guy is 220, 225 with paws like a bear. I was pretty intimidated.

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He was just huge. I was afraid of him. You had a 170-pound guy coming here and he was 220, 225 with these paws like a bear. I was pretty intimidated the first few years. I'm happy he was on my side the whole time.

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It's always a rivalry between us and with all the Rangers fans, we'll finally have a full building. We know what happened in 1997 when they knocked us out (the most-recent time they met in playoffs). This should be one of the best series.

Patrik Elias