On his best players stepping up in the victory:
I don’t know how far teams go when their big guys aren’t going. You need them, especially at times when your backs are against the wall. We can’t stay that our backs were against the wall — it was one game — but we needed tonight. They stepped up.
It started with our goaltender. He was outstanding. We just fed off of those two penalty kills at the start of the game. They just gave us energy, and we took off from there.
On how the momentum changed with the goal late in the first period:
I think they iced it with 15 seconds left.