“We left [Akhtyamov] out to dry. He’s been our best player pretty much all year. It sucks to see him leave the ice, but [Matt] Murray came in and did a job and we came back, so we’re happy with that.”
– William Villeneuve on Artur Akhtyamov
“We never give up. We know that our best is hard to compete with for other teams. Obviously, we don’t want it to be like this anymore, and we want to lead instead of coming back every game because, in the long run, it doesn’t work like that.