Q: Are they a desperate team you think right now?

SIDNEY CROSBY: Well, I think going home, they want to play well. Every game is important, but they want to make sure that they win this next one, there is no doubt.

Q: Is Philly the most hostile crowd toward you? What is the worst thing that's been done to you there?

CROSBY: Yeah, I would say it's a pretty tough place to play. But at the same time, in the playoffs it makes for a great atmosphere. The worst thing? I can't really name one thing. They're just a tough crowd. They're not afraid to say anything. You know, they're just very vocal. A vocal group.

Q: One of your teammates went so far today as to say you guys were lucky last night in that you haven't really played well yet in this series at least up to the standards that you set for yourselves. Your feelings on that?

CROSBY: I wouldn't say, I mean, we're lucky. We had a couple letdowns, I think, in the second period, especially. We didn't play the way we wanted to. But I think they're right in saying that we still can raise their level a bit more and be better. But at the same time you have to give yourself the opportunity to do that. Sometimes other teams play well, but I think we have to be probably a little bit more consistent.

Q: Does it matter to you to get back on the goal-scoring streak, if you will, and then we can stop saying you're struggling to score goals?

CROSBY: I mean, we're winning, so that is the most important thing. I guess it makes it easier because we don't have to answer questions about it. But you want to contribute. And when you get opportunities, you want to make sure they go in. But, I said it before, sometimes they go in, sometimes they don't. But you need to do things the right way in order to give yourselves those opportunities. So that's what I've been trying to do.

Q: Is there something about playing Philadelphia for you that somehow they seem to go in all the time?

CROSBY: I don't know. I don't change anything. But I just want to make sure that I'm getting those opportunities, because in the playoffs you don't always get so many. So I want to make sure when I get them, I take advantage of them.

Q: Sort of piggybacking on what Dave asked before, since you were a high-profile player at a pretty young age. Did crowd stuff ever bother you where kids were getting on you at a young age, and if so, when were you able to tune it out and get that tunnel vision that a lot of star athletes talk about?

CROSBY: I think you learn from it. You go through it, experience it. You go through a lot of different situations and try to learn how to deal with it. But I don't think there was one time where I really said, you know, I'm ready to go through this.

It's just a lot of experiences you go through. And realizing that you just have to focus on what you have to do and nothing outside of that.

Q: Did you get a look at the no goal last night and what did you think of it?

CROSBY: Yeah, I got a look. Looks like it was in, but I don't know, I didn't have the right angle. But I saw a picture that showed it. It showed the puck over the line, so. I don't know. I think from what I heard, they couldn't get the right angle and it was inconclusive. Then the call on the ice is I guess the next opinion. And they called it a no goal on the ice so that stood.

Q: If that's inconclusive, does that shake your confidence in the replay system?

CROSBY: I think everything involved with that whole play, how close it was, number one, but with Biron's glove coming over top of it at the time it did. Then I think they said in one of the images where they snapped the frame, you know, there was a flash so they couldn't see that last image. I'm glad we won, just put that way. That would be a tough one to take if we lost.

Q: When is the last time you took advantage of an optional skate by not skating?

CROSBY: I did skate today.

Q: You did?

CROSBY: I did.

Q: Short skate?

CROSBY: Early bird, yeah.

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