Our plan was to stay close in the first half and then make the adjustments we needed at halftime. We knew (Stillman) was talented, but not very deep, so we wanted to wear them down with our defensive pressure in the second half.
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I thought their red uniforms were pretty cool. And I'm a pretty big NHL Blues fan from growing up in St. Louis. I liked getting to see former Blues player Brind'Amour and Stillman on the field.
In the NHL these days, you don't get surprised by too much. When we went and got Cory Stillman , you could kind of see it coming that something might not work out. We still had hopes that they would get both of them signed -- that would've been really good. That's the business of hockey right now, and other teams go through the same thing every year.
We saw what we need to work on today. Now we've got to clean it up. Stillman was able to find our weaknesses today. We've got to solidify those areas. We can't let teams just continue to find them.
Ferguson had a smaller chip stack, so Stillman was not risking his entire stack to stay in the hand. He stayed. So we turn over the cards, ... and he's got pocket aces.
It definitely wasn't as tough as being down two goals the last few games, ... Erik has been doing a great job using his speed. He creates a lot of open ice for Cory Stillman and me.