SAY WHAT: 'TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS'

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MARK GIORDANO ON SCOREBOARD WATCHING:

"It's hard not to know where you are. We're playing in a Canadian market, Canadian division - and with social media, all the tools, you know exactly what the percentages are and where you are in the standings. … I think you should know where you are."

ON CRUCIAL GAMES VS. MONTREAL:

"Anytime you get into these situations or games that mean so much - first off - you don't want to put too much pressure (on yourself) and just want to play the game. Make mistakes by being too aggressive, if anything. ... You've got to be on the right side of those little battles. You can't put so much pressure on yourself as an individual that you can't execute properly. Those are little things you can do.
"We're looking at them as basically do-or-dies. When you're playing a team directly ahead of you head-to-head, it's obviously even more important. It's an opportunity for us to get right back in it if we can take care of business, so that's the way we're looking at it."

CHRIS TANEV ON EXTRA TIME AT HOME:

"Playing with the dogs, walk the dogs a little. I'm taking some online classes to try and stay busy as well. Between those two, you pass a little bit of time."

ON HITTING THE BOOKS:

"I only went to school for a year, so I've been slowly trying to work on it over the last year and a bit. It took me 10 years to go back to school, but once the pandemic hit last spring, I had a lot of free time on my hands, so I started taking some classes again."