If you don't believe you can win and beat these teams, then you'll never beat them. This gives us another opportunity to reinforce the belief we've built up over the last six or eight weeks. What does matter is believing they can make the transition from pretenders to contenders against the likes of Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg, against Mike Modano and Ed Belfour. We just have to go out there and win. I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.
History is history.
The Oilers don't have the payroll or the talent to hang in with them over the course of an 82-game season. We realize that, but we also feel we can beat them. We just have to focus on what we do. It's another great test for us, obviously, against Colorado. They've lost 13 games all year long, so it's a good opportunity for us, again, to judge ourselves against the best team in hockey.