"It's still early. There's going to be ebbs and flows in games. I don't look at last night [against the Rangers] and think about [slow starts], I think about how we raised our level in the third period, when we needed it to be and win a game a different way. Of course you want to start right, but it doesn't always happen that way. We're focused on how we won the game." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella on slow starts
"There's a lot of guys out, but right now our schedule is so light, so if you want to be a good news guy, if this happens when we don't have a lot of games and it's going to happen to everybody at some point in the year, this is the time you want it to happen." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on team injuries
