April 7 postgame quotes: Drew Doughty

On whether the team is happy with a point:
“Yeah, happy with a point, but I think we deserved better. We out-shot them by however many, and we came back three times to get back in the game. They had a lucky bounce on the first goal. As I said, I think we deserved better. I thought we deserved the two points, but if we have another chance with them this year, we’ve got to make sure we win it.”

On whether he believes L.A. would have won had the game been extended by one minute:
“Yeah, I did, for sure. Even four-on-four, we were getting some good chances. I don’t even know if they got a shot in that overtime period at all. If we had just a little more time, we were rolling there. We had all the confidence in the world in that third period, and it’s too bad we didn’t.”

On where he sees the most improvement from the start of the season:
“I think everyone, from our top players. First of all, the top players have been working hard. They’re showing up at these big times [and] a big time during the season. The other guys are following their leadership, and they’re playing well at the same time. So that’s what we need from everyone, every night – we need their hardest working effort and play the right system game, and we should win a lot more games.”

Courtesy Anaheim Ducks PR:
“I think we dominated the whole game. The only thing that is frustrating is we only get one point rather than two. We definitely deserved the two points. We outplayed them. I think there’s no doubt in anybody’s mind about that. It sucks that we kind of had them if we won that game. We would have been only six points behind them and we had a chance to catch them, but we gave up the two to them and now it’s a little bit more difficult.”

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