"I was hoping we'd have some energy tonight, but it caught up with us," Head Coach Dave Tippett said of the four-game road trip coupled with the memorial service for former teammate Colby Cave this morning. "You hope your team pushes to new levels and finds ways to push through things, and you can never use excuses, but there's times when you can tell your team just doesn't have it and there's not enough energy in the group, and tonight was one of those times."
"We were obviously not very good, but some days are a little bit more than just about hockey," McDavid said. "The performance wasn't there tonight, but today was about Colby and his memorial... I don't want to make excuses. We weren't a good enough team. They were better than us. But I think you're asking a lot from guys to sit through something like that, remember your teammate, see what their whole family is going through and expect to perform that night. It's a hard day."