If I start worrying about stuff like that, I'll be losing my own focus. We had four, five really poor games, actually not all poor, but we lost them and certainly I guess people have opinions and start worrying but we can turn this around as fast as we got in it. |
If I start worrying about stuff like that, then I'll be losing my own focus. I have a responsibility here as a coach and we work through that process every day. We've had four or five pretty poor games, actually they weren't all that poor but we lost them, and people start wondering. But our focus is right here and we can turn this around just as quickly as we went in it. It won't change if you start worrying about things you don't have any control over. |
If we are backing off it means we don't want the puck, which makes it tough. |
If we don't learn from that, we'll be going home early. |
If you're going to score, it usually takes some good teamwork and we weren't as good a team as we needed to be. That's why guys with good offensive talent didn't seem to finish off. |
In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit, |
In spite of everybody saying 'Oh, I love the new game,' I don't love the new game. I don't think it's hockey. ... You're not going to see the physical playoff style if everybody is afraid of penalties. |
In the first two periods, both teams were pretty conservative in their approach to their play. There weren't a lot of chances for either side. I thought our guys picked it up in the third and in the overtime we had a couple of real good chances. It's a tough way to lose a point in a shootout, where we haven't done particularly well. |
In two games (the opposition) has scored three tap-in goals. That's bad play on our part away from the puck. |
Is is frustrating? Sure it is. You don't come to work every day to lose. I know I don't. |
It certainly could be a theory, no question. |
It certainly has saved us in some games, |
It certainly was an unusual way to finish. |
It could be (McCabe or one of his ilk prevail). It has helped their game that we're using them a lot more on power play and penalty kills. |
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with team-building as far as I'm concerned. |