“I know they're going to be cautious with me, but it's just a tough one to swallow, ... I felt like I got back into my game groove. I felt like I was making my pitches better, hitting my spots, and it all ended.”
Zach Duke
“This is a tough one to swallow. I think I'd rather get beat by 25 or 30 than get beat by a point.”
Joe Macri
“That was definitely a tough one to swallow after coming back so strong [from a 5-2 deficit]. But you can't really sit back and dwell on it. It was over, so we had to move on, and we came out and played well.”
Nigel Dawes
“Three one-goal losses are tough to swallow. We need to erase that. It's single-elimination now. It doesn't matter what our records are.”
Brian Gionta
“It's a tough one to swallow because you feel you had the game in hand and you couldn't get it done.”
Jerome Bettis
“It's a tough one to swallow. It's disappointing, very disappointing. The last game is done, and we feel like it's premature.”
Richard Seymour
“I'm getting really tired of that. This one is tough to swallow. We were so close, but I guess it's not meant to be.”
Pat McDonald
