April 25 practice quotes: Stoll, Quick

Jarret Stoll, on San Jose’s centers:
They’re all good in the faceoff dot. They’re a puck possession team obviously, as are we, we feel. They’re all good taking faceoffs, but they like the puck in the middle of the ice too. They can all carry it, they all have skill. That’s something where you want to keep plays, pucks and situations out of the middle because that’s obviously the most dangerous part of the ice. We want to keep pucks out of the middle against them, it’s just that’s where breakdowns happen and scoring chances happen. With those centers, they control a lot of their play. Thornton, what he’s doing out there, Pavelski, Shepard, all those guys.

Stoll, on eliminating turnovers:
It’s just a mindset, just an attitude to keep pucks out of the middle. We understand maybe more so now, it took a couple of tough lessons maybe, but where they are in the neutral zone, what their structure and system is and they’re very disciplined at it. You can’t put pucks there. You have to get it in behind them. I’m pretty sure they’re saying the exact same thing about us to get it in behind our D and we want to get in behind theirs. That’s just the way it goes. That’s just the chess match for what it is. The team making the least amount of mistakes doing those things will probably have more chances and a better chance to win the game.

Stoll, on what makes playing in San Jose difficult:
They come out hard. They take a lot of pride in playing in front of their fans. They have great fans there and yeah, they’re loud. We’ve got great fans here, our fans our loud too. They come out hard. You have to be ready especially for the start of the game that first 10 minutes. Everybody says it but it’s true. You have to weather the storm and you have to try to take your game to them right away and get them on their heels. We have done that in that building recently here. Not obviously in the playoffs, but we scored the first goal, a couple in Game 2 there. We know we can do that, we just have to come out and have everybody going. There is obviously no room for much error out there anymore. We know that. That’s not a secret. Just have to win a game, just have to go in there and win a game and get it back to our home fans.

Stoll, on league-wide playoff comebacks, and whether it has been discussed:
We don’t talk about teams coming back. It is happening in the playoffs, probably more so than in previous years, but you play the game. You have to keep going. You understand who you’re playing against too. You’re playing against a team that is very skilled offensively. It can score five, six, seven goals and we know that. So you just have to keep playing and playing the right way. Otherwise, they’re going to be coming at you and coming at you and they were. In the third period, they were coming at us pretty good. We had to withstand some good pressure there and Quickie had to make some good saves. It’s kind of weird this year how there is a lot of comebacks from two or three goals down. Some of them in the third period, so it’s a little rare.

Jonathan Quick, on the trend of the series:
I think the common theme is work. The team that has brought that work has usually won the game. Game 3 we had a few moments where we had the game. We were out working them and we had the lead and everything, and it just didn’t pan out our way. Aside from that, I thought that it was the main factor in the series.

Quick, on the park and ride mentality being beneficial:
I’m not fully sure what park and ride means. Assuming it means just take it one game at a time. That’s what you do. Whether you’re down or up in the series, that’s the approach. [Reporter: Do you think this team is better equipped to handle the deficit than other teams?] I don’t know. You don’t know what is going on in other teams’ locker rooms. You can’t really compare that. It’s tough.