May 8 postgame quotes: Anaheim

Jonas Hiller, on replacing Frederik Andersen in the third period:
You can’t get much worse, to sit on the bench for 50 minutes and then be there in a 2-1 game. I found a way to focus. From one [second] to the next second, you’re kind of almost in a different world from being on the bench watching the game to suddenly you have to focus and stop the puck. I was happy that it worked out and we were able to get a win.

Hiller, on feeling like he saved their season:
I don’t know. We knew it was going to be an important game. I thought we played pretty well the first two games and didn’t find a way to win. Then finally we scored three goals. If we scored three goals the last two games we’d be up 3-0. It’s going to be a tight series. We knew that and now we have to win the next one.

Teemu Selanne, on responding to the injuries to Frederik Andersen and Matt Beleskey:
That’s what it has been like this whole year. I joked that we sell tickets. You never know what’s going to happen in our games. But jeez, we can do this a little easier than this. Like I said, let’s try to use this as a confidence boost for the next game and enjoy a little bit, but like I said, even keel.

Selanne, on the importance of the power play:
I’ve always said that special teams can make the game easier to win. Tonight was a great example of that. Two PP goals versus their one, that was the difference.

Ryan Getzlaf, on Jonathan Quick:
He’s a great goaltender, world class. He comes out and challenges a lot. Sometimes we can use that, sometimes we can’t. He keeps them in every hockey game and they’ve got a lot of faith in him.

Getzlaf, on their attitude after the win:
We just enjoy this one tonight and then we get ready tomorrow. We’ll restart again. It’s a matter of recovering and being ready to go with that same effort.

Ben Lovejoy, on defending against Los Angeles:
The Kings are a smart team that feed off of mistakes. We know that. We’ve known that all year. The first two games we made costly mistakes. Not many of them, but enough that they made us pay and were able to go up 2-0. Tonight, we played a very smart game all night. We limited mistakes and were able to get guys in front of Quick and to solve him tonight.

Lovejoy, on Los Angeles and Anaheim being equally matched:
Absolutely, we’ve known that all year. We’ve known that for years, but this team has won a Stanley Cup more recently. They’re a seasoned playoff team and we want and need to beat them. Tonight we proved we can and hopefully leave a seed of doubt in their mind that the Ducks can play this game.

Lovejoy, on getting a good start on the road:
It was. That’s a great crowd up there. We know that coming in, we know that they very much dislike our team and I don’t blame them. But tonight, we just played a smart game. We know that this team feeds off of mistakes. They’re not going to cheat for offense, but when you mess up they’re going to make you pay. We made very few mistakes the first two games, but they made us pay every time. Tonight we were able to limit that and when we did make mistakes we had some great goaltending.

Bruce Boudreau, on his team overcoming adversity:
The adversity is just that we’re playing a team that every game is like this. I mean it’s no surprise to me. We’ve played them nine times this year and every game has been the same way. I just expect them all to be like that. As far as the injuries, both guys are day-to-day with a lower body injury and I don’t want to talk about that anymore.

Boudreau, on what home ice advantage has meant in the series:
So far it hasn’t meant anything. I hope it continues for at least one more game. [Reporter: Explain that.] I can’t explain it. They’re two good teams that if you look at their road records during the course of the season, it didn’t really matter. When they play good, they play good. I think they had won at one point eight in a row on the road this year and we won, I think, 28 games on the road or something like that. They’re two good road teams. That’s the best explanation I can give you.

Boudreau, on Frederik Andersen’s play:
He was playing well. He’s a guy that you can tell if he’s playing well early. The glove hand seems a lot sharper and he’s more concerned, he’s good with it. I thought he played good and I thought Hilly came in in a tough circumstance… He made a couple real big saves, except for the baseball goal that they scored.

Boudreau, on Teemu Selanne’s power play goal:
The four-on-three we didn’t execute very well. They block shots great. When we switched, they went down and it was a rush that was a broken play. I haven’t seen the replay of it yet, but I thought Bonino made a really great pass. The reason Selanne has almost 700 goals is because he goes to the net and he stops and that’s where the puck was and that’s why he put it in.

Boudreau, on playing Sami Vatanen, Frederik Anderson and Kyle Palmieri:
I thought Sami was great. I got to tell you, I thought he was the best player on the ice for both teams tonight. So obviously that change was good. I thought Freddy was good. I can’t call it minor changes after the game when those two guys had that kind of game. I thought Palmieri had some good chances and gave some life to that other line. They were good changes that worked at least for tonight.

Boudreau, on why he started Frederik Andersen in goal:
Quite frankly, because he’s hurt right now, I looked at the records of both guys in Staples Center. Hiller was 0-7 in his career here and Freddy was 2-0. It was like a little baseball manager, just went with the guy that was comfortable here. Hilly got the save.

Boudreau, on Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry:
I played them every third shift there for a while because I thought they were way more engaged tonight than I’ve seen them in the series. I’m sure Perry was pretty upset with the stick breaking, but we got away with it and it was good. But they were both good tonight.