What led to the optional skate at practice?
Berube: There were a lot of minutes played by some of our guys with the OT and the end of the game there as we were trying to tie it up. The minutes got a little high. We just made it an optional.
Would you like the minutes to be lower?
Berube: Yeah, with the state of the game and where we were at… Max (Domi) was in the box, too, and wasn’t available. I played our skilled guys a lot down the stretch to try to tie the game up.