"When you go on a road trip like this, certainly, you can dig yourself into a hole and at the end of it, look up and be like, 'What just happened?' Even with our success on this road trip, after Christmas there's still going to be a lot of hockey left, and we've got to play well for the entire year." -- Predators coach Peter Laviolette on Nashville playing the third of a four-game trip
"For whatever reason, our home record is significantly better than our road record and we've got to carry that energy and that momentum through here. A goal of ours at the beginning of the year was to make this a tough rink to come into. [Coach] D.J. [Smith] said he wanted teams to know when they've come into our rink because we're going to go out there, we're going to smack them, we're going to put pucks behind their [defensemen] and we're going to play hard." -- Senators defenseman Mark Borowiecki
