Hitchcock: "I don't look at it from top players ... blah, blah, blah ... this guy needed to do this, this needed to do that. It's a push, it's a team push. We win as a team and we lose as a team, especially as coaches. Like I don't want to get into we needed more from this guy or we needed more from that guy. We needed to open the wound. We opened the wound by the way we played. We played really well to start the playoffs and we had our foot on their throat with the way we played in Game 3 and we couldn't squeeze. We couldn't get the goal and when we had them emotionally pushed out ... the games in three and four gave them the life that allowed other players who were very frustrated by our checking to enter the series. They ended up coming through at the end for them. We had done a great job, but we couldn't push through and get the goal, get the lead or whatever after playing well and they got more wind in their sails. To me, Game 6 is a little bit of a microcosm of what went on. You push, you push and you push and then they wake up after the second period and they look in their locker room and say, 'Holy smokes, it's still tied here. We might as well go win it.' And then people you have not heard from in the series score big goals. And end of series. It's the collective push for me as a coach. It's not just the playoffs, it's the measure of significant opponents that is the next level for me. That's why you wake up and you grind. You get up and you start grinding. You don't grind on, 'We need this or we need that.' That's the general manager's job. My job is to find more from the group that I'm given. So you find ways and you try to create an atmosphere to even get more from your team. Who's on your team, who plays, what they do ... look we put two guys that were just learning the game last year, (Jaden) Schwartz and (Vladimir) Tarasenko, they're significant players for us. There's a lot of really great pieces here that have really emerged as good players now, but we've got to help them along and find a way to push through when you're sitting in a series like that. You just can't live on playing well. You've got to have time when it's the killer instinct and you've got to put the foot right on the throat — I keep saying that — but when it's time to put it on, you've got to put it on and we didn't. We let two teams, two really good teams ... we let em off the hook. And when they got off the hook, then they started to play and the people that we had boxed out came into the game."