Postgame quotables, losing team version

The disallowed goal was a hot topic with the Red Wings after their 3-1 loss to the Stars in Game 4 on Wednesday. Here's what a few of the Red Wings had to say after the loss:

Nicklas Lidstrom: He's saying his rear end is over the line. I didn't know about that rule. I thought it was the skate they were looking at. You've just got to live with that call ... It could have been a different game, but they battled hard. They were a desperate team out there. We have to match that intensity. I thought we did that in the second half of the game but not the first half where we had some penalties and gave them some momentum. ... I think the penalties we took were a big part of that [slow start]. You don't get the rhythm with your lines going, you're going to have to kill all the time. That just ruins the momentum with your lines.

Darren McCarty: I think each game is a battle inside the whole war, so there are different story lines to each game and tonight they came out flying off the bat and we just couldn't get anything going. We took some penalties so we were back a little bit on our heels. We got better as the game went on, but it wasn't enough. The good thing is we're still up, we're in the driver's seat and we're going back to the Joe. ... We wanted it to be our best game of the playoffs and it might have been, I wouldn't say, we've played some bad ones early, it wasn't our worst but it wasn't enough. At this time of the year, conference finals, it's got to be a 60-minute effort and tonight it wasn't there.

Henrik Zetterberg: It was a goal. Homer was outside the crease, nothing new to that. Everything goes really fast out there and unfortunately it was a missed call. I didn't think it is a rule but that's that. I don't think the loss came on that call. ... In the first period we were in the box too much. It was tough to get any momentum. They got a little momentum and we got a little tired. We didn't play with all of our players because we were in PK a lot. In the second half, I thought we played a little better. Halfway through the second, we really got it going and started playing better but they were up by a goal.

-- Keeli Garza