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Here is the post-game reaction from John Tortorella, Brandon Dubinsky and .
John Tortorella
On finding a way: "It's two points, I don't care how we do it. It's two points."
On his team's inability to generate shots for the first time in several weeks: "We're certainly not trying to play that way, not get(ting) shots on goal. I thought we did a fairly good job of checking. I don't think we gave them much. As I've said, you win games different ways. We've lost some games where we've been lights out. Tonight, we win a game when, for a number of minutes, we had struggles. You take the two points and get the hell out of town."
On the play of Bobrovsky: "Played really well. Especially in the second period, where we turn some pucks over, didn't give ourselves a chance to forecheck. He made some keys saves there. He's a good goalie. We all know that. He certainly was a big part of it tonight."
On Zach Werenski's rover mentality: "I grabbed Z (Zach) right away on the first goal. I think Jens (Jenner) was forechecking the puck, and Z's right up the ice. We don't want him to play defense, we want him to be up there. And I yelled to him right away after we scored the goal to keep on going."
On Seth Jones' getting the 'A' on his jersey in Nick Foligno's absence: "Oh, there's no question he's the next one in line for that. The way he is, and hasn't said a word, but just the way he's led by how he plays, that's well deserved. He is going to keep on growing on that aspect of his game, as well. The most difficult thing is to lead by your play, and Jonesy has done that from the get-go this year."
On his overall assessment of the game: "I categorize that as a win, and that's all we're concerned about right now, is finding ways to get two points, and we did tonight."
Brandon Dubinsky
On his overall thoughts on the game: "It was a little different, they (the Devils) got the bulk of the shots tonight, but we found timely goals. I thought we had a big battle level tonight, which was good, and found a way to get the points, that's what's most important right now.
On the random nature of shots on goal: "We've seen where we pour on (net) 60 (shots) and find a way to lose the hockey game. We didn't get many tonight but we got the points."
On playing their first game without Nick Foligno: "When you lose your captain, your leader on and off the ice, you need guys to step up. I thought we had some guys step up and various roles and play some big minutes. We're going to need that moving forward."
Scott Harrington
On getting back into a playoff spot: "They're all important right now. There's still 22 games left for us. Yeah, we're in right now, but it's really tight, so for us we're going to try to - I know it's a cliche - take it one game at a time, because it's so tight and we play so many Metro teams right now. It's important for us to just focus on each game and squeeze as many points as we can."
On contributing offensively with the game-winning goal: "It's always nice, obviously, nice to help out with the scoring. For us, similar to last time we were here, it put is in the driver seat. I'll take it at that point of the game. We only needed two tonight. Bob did a great job and we'll take the win."
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