“I want to forget this last two months. If I talk with you about last two months, last month, this is a big dialogue. Maybe 40 minutes. It’s not good. It’s not happy … For me, it’s very important how I’m feeling now. Those past moments, one month, two months ago, it’s not easy mentally, right? When you don’t play, you play, don’t play, this is not easy. But for me, it’s not what happened before. Now, I have full concentration on my team, full concentration on my game. I need to play better and I need to help this team, because I really want to play in playoffs.”

Flames right winger Andrei Kuzmenko, who has racked up five points over a five-game span, when asked about how his confidence has increased since he snapped out of a lengthy scoring slump