On losing in overtime, and calls that went against the Kings late in the game: “It’s part of it. It happens. Certainly we’re not happy with the calls, but what team really is? So we’ll try to do our best to dust ourselves off and get ready for the next one.” On Jonathan Quick’s performance: [...]
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May 16 postgame quotes: Darryl Sutter
Opening statement: “It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.” On the win: “We found a way. You know what/ The power play was on. [...]
May 16 postgame quotes: San Jose
Todd McLellan, on the game: “I liked our game. We’ll meet tomorrow at the rink and I’ll tell our team that. The thing I like about our team, maybe in the past this would have bothered our team more, but with the group of guys we have I think we can recover from this. I [...]
May 16 postgame quotes: Dustin Brown
On being up two-nothing in the series: “It’s a big win, the way we did it. It’s not how you want to do it, but again, it’s a huge thing holding home ice. Now we’ve got to go into their building, which they play very well in. They have very much the same atmosphere that [...]
May 16 postgame quotes: Trevor Lewis
On the Game 2 win: “Yeah. I think the first two periods we didn’t play our game. We were a little sloppy and a little slow. In the third period we kind of picked it up. They got up, but we fought back and got some power plays at the end there. The power play [...]
May 16 postgame quotes: Tyler Toffoli
Oh how big the victory is: “It’s huge. Leaving here up two-nothing is a lot sweeter than going into San Jose one-one. They’re a hard team to play in their building, so it was big. It was a huge game.” On Trevor Lewis’ game-winning goal: “I was just at the blue line, made a little [...]
Reaction to the Torres hit on Stoll
Raffi Torres was penalized two minutes for charging at 19:02 of the second period on a play in which Jarret Stoll weathered a high hit while in the attacking zone and did not return to the game. Darryl Sutter declined to offer specifics on the nature of Stoll’s absence, though he pointedly indicated it wasn’t [...]
May 14 postgame quotes: San Jose
Todd McLellan, on generating opportunities in the Game 1 loss: “I just spent a week, six days anyhow, reviewing the St. Louis series and I heard a lot of the same stuff coming out of their mouths so we didn’t accomplish enough. There’s a team that just played against them for six nights and said [...]
