"We have to keep working on our consistency; we have to be at our best every single period every single night … every single shift," Simmonds said. "Obviously, we know we're not going to play perfect hockey, so we just have to minimize our mistakes and bad games, and after we have one of them, we want to make sure the next game we're at our best because you don't want it to build slowly and build and build into a big snowball like it did when we had that 10-game losing streak."