This is definitely a big step. I knew our team was going to get better this year, with or without Adam Foote. Now, with the free-agent market, we get a guy like Adam. He will push our players to be better and they're going to compete hard every night.
It was a great hockey game, it was our most complete game of the season. We got out to an early 3-1 lead and held on after that. Our team played very well. Marc Denis made some key saves.
We're a pretty good overtime team and we had a great chance. It was a point on the road. We would have liked to have had two. But St. Louis battled hard, too.
We started out pretty sluggish and they were a hungry hockey team and really put us down early. We showed a lot of character coming back.
We were the better team tonight. We should have won the hockey game but we didn't. The guys played their tails off. I can't go in there (the dressing room) and tell them they didn't play well. They know they played well.
In my mind, Calgary is the most physical team in the NHL. They play a playoff game every night.
It's coming around. We have a pretty good team here when we're healthy.
I told our guys between periods that we're playing a team that's basically in the playoffs right now, and we look like it's an exhibition game. We needed to get our feet moving.
It's nice, but we should have 40 or 45 wins. We're a better team than 29 wins. We're going to battle for a playoff spot soon.
It's nice breaking the record, but we're just trying to gain confidence for next year. We are a much better team than 72 points.
Once it took that long, I thought it might be a goal. I thought it might be kind of funny where one team celebrates and then they're going to turn it over and we're going to win the hockey game.
This one didn't have much intensity. It was two teams playing back-to-back games against each other, and nobody wanted to get hurt. It might have been exciting for the fans, but not for the coaches.