Bryan Bridges Quotations

I felt like I played one of my better games in the series. Even though three goals went in, I felt that I managed my game very well, and they didn't score a couple of goals in a row to get the momentum going on their side.

We're playing smart hockey. You don't want to be sitting back and letting the other team pressure you when you have a lead.

Last weekend I wasn't great, but tonight I felt like I was right back on top of my game. I know they had some guys out of their lineup, but they still had some good chances.

I've tried meditation and it feels like I'm wasting my time. This is meditative and relaxing but I produce something out of it.

They got one and we need to go five now. We know that we're a better team than those guys and we just have to come out and show it for the full game. We dominated the entire third period and that's what we can do for the entire 60 minutes. We came on strong, but in the playoffs that's not good enough.

They had some guys that were banged up and so did we. With all that happening I think we played a solid game. We didn't make too many mistakes and we buried four goals. If we can score four goals each game, I think we're going to do pretty well in the playoffs.

I wanted to play my last game here and I was hoping for a repeat of last year when I shut out Everett to end the year. It didn't work out that way, but we got the win.

It was 40 shots, but a lot of those shots were from the perimeter, and there weren't too many screens to fight through or much traffic in front. (Facing) 40 shots isn't bad if they're all from the outside. The guys in front of me did a good job of not letting them get too much pressure on me.

I'd rather get the two points. They made it closer than I liked, but our guys were up to the task.

The guys did a great job defensively. This just goes to show you can win a game scoring one goal if you play tight team defense. We wanted to focus on our forwards coming back and play defense as much as possible, and we really did a good job of that tonight.