"Right now, we need to get a bit more offensive production out of our top-nine forwards,, we need more out of them. But mostly, it's our play defensively as a team that has to improve. That's what is hurting us the most.''

"We're not going to win many 6-5 games, we're falling in some categories -- our penalty killing is dropping, our goals against, our shots against. We're in the bottom half of the league now in those three categories, and those categories have to be good in order to win.''

-Steve Yzerman, GM of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Pierre LeBrun of ESPN has more.