Nick Lidstrom Quotations

I don't think it was a penalty. I felt his stick and that was about it. I heard the crowd go nuts out there, but I didn't feel I bumped into him.

He's been a fighter his whole career. He has had major injuries that never finished him, and that's what we saw this year. He just didn't give up.

He has been talking about the playoffs since training camp. He has been real determined to get back playing playoff hockey.

He's going to help our team a lot with the way he can play. It's going to help us tremendously.

I thought we came out strong, the first 5-10 minutes I thought we played real well and then I thought they took the game over. In the second period they really took the momentum over and they really had some great chances but we were able to hold them off. I thought in the third we started to play a little better again.

We were staying patient when the score was tied, we stuck to our game plan, we didn't open ourselves up defensively.