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So far, theme among #CBJ players - Zach Werenski, Ivan Provorov, and Sean Monahan, with more to come - is that they disagree with coach Rick Bowness’ impassioned “they don’t care” observation. In fairness. Bowness did soften that stance later in his comments. 1/2

Adam Edström will be a healthy scratch for the 11th straight game tonight. Sullivan said consistency (or lack thereof) is the main reason while offering this explanation for the string of scratches: “The message was — is — that we're trying to walk the line of giving some young guys opportunities, but also trying to reward performance and effort and energy and execution and all those things. And we think as a coaching staff that that's an important element of what we're trying to build here and what we're trying to accomplish. How we perform, how we execute, how all of that stuff matters. Some of the guys that have been in the lineup and those decisions that we've made, we've made those decisions for a lot of those reasons. Eddy’s one of those guys. He's a great kid. He's a good teammate. Him and I have had a couple of conversations around this. As I said to Eddy, we don't always expect players to agree with the decisions that we make, but we hope they respect the decisions that we make, and we try to make them for the right reasons, and we try to communicate that to all the players." #NYR

#NYR Jonathan Quick: “Obviously, the past few years, very lucky to be part of this organization and wear this jersey, but tonight will be my last game in the league. You know, I'm looking forward to it. Very fortunate. Wife flew down with the kids. So they'll be here in attendance tonight. My parents will be here. So looking forward to this last one and try to get one more win here.”

Even if they don’t win the lottery, if the #LeafsForever get one of Reid, Verhoeff or Malhotra, that’s a major win itself.