Mikael Backlund on his purpose Monday in Chicago:

“We had been grinding in entrance, there, after which Matty shot it and I felt one thing hit my stick. I instructed them immediately, I wasn’t certain if it was a D-man slashing my stick or if it was the puck. After I noticed the puck go into the online, I believed it did a bit little bit of a deflection, like the way it moved in. So I instructed Matty immediately and he’s like ‘ohhhhh, OK.’ I’m like ‘we’ll see, they’ll determine it out.’”

On the two-game set in St. Louis:

“It’s a bit little bit of a playoff battle right here, two video games. It’s at all times arduous to beat groups twice, however that’s our purpose coming right here, beginning tonight. We all know how they play, we noticed them not too way back. We felt that was a recreation that received away for us, we felt for 2 intervals, we had been the higher group. That’s how we’ve received to play. We had been a bit sluggish in that first interval, they usually received up on us and we needed to chase all recreation, however I believed second and third interval in that recreation, we performed rather well, and that’s what we’ve received to do tonight.”