On the team’s improved effort coming off of the loss in Montreal:
I had no issue with our effort. It was our execution and how we played. It wasn’t an effort thing.
We certainly played with more purpose tonight. It was a tough game. It was a hard game. It could’ve gone either way, but I liked how our guys stuck with it, got the goal we needed in the third period, and did a good job after that. Even with the penalty kills late, we did a really good job.
[Ilya Samsonov], after giving up two early in the game, keeps it there.