"We just have to play good hockey regardless. When we're on back-to-backs, you've just got to play the hockey game, same thing if another team is on a back-to-back, you have to go out and play good hockey. Regardless of who we're playing or what their schedule was, we have to play good hockey for 60 minutes ourselves." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill
"He has the puck a lot in the offensive zone, and guys come to try to get it away from him, and he's evading the check, he's hanging on to the puck, he's really difficult to knock off the puck. That's when I really see his game kind of rounding out, and a lot of it's just because of how he protects the puck. When it's not going well for him, those pucks go off his stick too quickly." -- Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe on forward William Nylander, who has four points (two goals, two assists) in his past two games
