"This is our playoffs, this is our Game 7s. You have to be ready to go out and match the other team's intensity."
And against the Avalanche, who are equally desperate for a victory, coach Randy Carlyle knows there's no more time for off-games.
Carlyle realizes the Avalanche is not just a one-line club, though, and said it's paramount that the Ducks "start on time."
"When we have decent starts and we're engaged right away, we seem to be able to carry that through the 60 minutes," Carlyle said.
"We're all competitors, we all want to play every night and to get back in," Brown told The Times, "you try to make as little mistakes as possible … At times like now, it's getting late into the season, and hopefully into the playoffs as well, it's going to be those grind shifts that kind of wear other teams down.