Western teams are used to the long road trips, and this one was thought to be “make or break”. Maybe. For a team that was picked to finish at the bottom of the NHL by the “experts”, and has beat that estimation handily by working hard and grinding the game, they don’t give up that easily. You have to respect that.
Coming out of losing at least a point in Boston, this one may have meant a little more to them. They were not playing a team of grinders like the Bruins, but a team of young players who like to score more than defend.