Some quotes from last night’s game, from Erik Ersberg, Patrick O’Sullivan and Marc Crawford…

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ERSBERG

“It’s tough. It was a close game, it was a great game by both teams. It sucks to lose one of these games but we’ve got a new game tomorrow. So we just don’t think about it too much.”

“I think we played great defensive hockey in front of me, clearing out rebounds for me and blocked shots and everything that we’re supposed to do, so that helped me out a lot.”

“It’s pretty fun, I think, these shootouts. Both teams have one point already so it’s one more point and it’s great for the crowd too. Today unfortunately we didn’t come out with a win, but just one team can lose.”

O’SULLIVAN

“It was a good effort. Every time we play Anaheim it’s a battle. I think there is really a good rivalry developed. Obviously we are at different points in the organizations’ progression. We are a young, building team and they obviously won the Cup last year with a good chance going into this year’s playoffs to win it again. They
are intense games and tonight was obviously a good one, good chances both ways, good goaltending in both ends. It’s one of those games you wish you could keep playing to end it without the shootout. We’ve
been on the other end of those enough this year – you’re not going to win every shootout you are in.”

CRAWFORD

“Erik played a terrific game for us. He made several really good saves. They were very fortunate to have as many power plays as they had and he stood really tall on all of them. They got the one power play goal and other than that I thought we did a lot of really good things tonight. We had a number of chances to win it, including a couple in the shootout, but we didn’t win the skill competition. It’s unfortunate but our guys played hard. These games mean a lot more to the teams that we are playing right now than they mean to us so it’s hard to find your motivation and our guys we’ve challenged them to find it. They’ve been finding it and that’s good.”

(on PK) “We got a lot of practice at it tonight. They are the most penalized team in the league and we got two power-play advantages in the game. Our guys did a great job of killing, they tried to take some of their key guys. It worked well and the goal they got, we tried to make a play on the penalty kill and they got the
outnumbering chance because of that.”