"We've just got to start building for the next season right now and got to start winning games and finding that winning culture. We have good games right now, play as hard as you can, have fun and try to win games and it's going to build up for the next season." -- Panthers center Aleksander Barkov
"Obviously the last one [of our goals] is to be the last man standing, Stanley Cup champ. But there's a number before that and that's playing to our standard first, and then you look at being a playoff team and you look at a first-place team. Well that's out, so now it's second. So we're trying to get to the next level that we can achieve." -- Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy on chasing second place in the Atlantic; the Tampa Bay Lightning have clinched first