Sergei Bobrovsky was absolutely brilliant tonight, saving all 35 shots that came his way and delivering the Columbus Blue Jackets a 1-0 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Here's his reaction along with John Torotella and Josh Anderson following the game.
John Tortorella
On the success of the Blue Jackets' penalty kill: "It's offset some of our problems. It's been that good."
On the game: "In the first period I thought we were loose and sloppy, Bob made some key saves all through the game. I thought their goalie made some saves too. But as the game went on you knew it was gonna be that type of night, as far as just grinding away.
"I just don't think we had much juice tonight, but you have to give them credit, that's a fast team. We find a way."
On Sergei Bobrovsky: "Since his break that we gave him, this is his best start. We come back with him, I think we need to get him in a flow after giving him a few days, goalies need to get into a flow."
On the team responding to adversity: "I just thought that was a really important game for us last night. And the couple of days we spent talking about our previous game with [the Devils], which was embarassing, and then the way we started that game [...] those two periods [last night] were very important."
On Josh Anderson's line creating opportunities with penalties: "I think they're getting checked more, I thought Josh had another good night just with his legs. I thought he banged the puck around a little bit, but he causes a lot of problems with teams, just self-chips, just pushing it ahead."
On Boone Jenner: "Just the way it's going for Boone that 2-on-1, he has the 2-on-1, holds onto the puck, holds onto the puck, and it turns into nothing.
"But he continues to do the other things, I've had that line on for a lot of key faceoffs, [Brandon Dubinsky] had a great night in faceoffs, and the wall play from [Jenner] has to be constant right now until he gets himself on track offensively."
Sergei Bobrovsky
On the fans: "The fans are always great in here, so it's a pleasure to perform for them."
On whether he prefers a lot of shots or just a few: "It actually doesn't matter, I don't have a choice."
On Artemi Panarin: "It [has been] fun to watch him all season long. It's nice to see that he got some points and got rewarded for his great work."
On playing both games of the back-to-back: "I felt great. I felt like a had a good sleep, I had good rest, I was ready to go today. I enjoy those kind of challenges."
Josh Anderson
On how the Blue Jackets held the Coyotes at bay: "I think we were just strong on pucks tonight. I think we won a lot of battles."
On the Coyotes: "Their whole team can skate, they're a fast team and you can't underestimate them."
On playing well on the back end of a back-to-back: "That's part of the game, back-to-backs. I think we got a lot this year, and we're continuing to learn."
