We have a lot of confidence in Bruno and Jeremy. |
We have a lot of confidence in Bruno and Jeremy. Our approach for the Atlanta game does not change from the previous four - let's do everything in our power to get the win. |
We have to start believing. (Our standings points deficit) now seems manageable. |
We have to, as players and as coaches, do a better job of preparing guys to play. We were not ready physically or mentally. We didn't seem to win many puck battles tonight. |
We have worked hard. It's just the application of what we're trying to do. |
We made it hard on ourselves. I thought we stopped playing there for a while. |
We need to be ready to play. (This loss) puts a lot of heat on us over the next few games. |
We seemed tentative. It did surprise me. I thought we were ready to go. We didn't compete as hard as we should have. |
We wanted to come out skating. We did, but didn't get rewarded for it. We generated a lot of chances, but just didn't put them in the net. |
We're up against teams that have a little more belief in their game right now. We have to overcome that by outworking these guys. |
Well, status quo wasn't working. For whatever reason, we weren't getting the response we thought we would from the players. I try and explain myself, not just telling them what we're doing but why we're doing it and why it's going to help us long-term. |
What I think was missing this season was the team-first mentality. Some nights our defensive work was good, on others, our offense was good. But we need 20 guys to put the team ahead of individual accolades, and I don't think we had that throughout the season. |
What they've done for us lately is when we've had a couple of shifts where we haven't done things well and lost momentum, they've been a great line to regain that momentum or at least get it turned around. You know what you're going to get for the most part every shift. |
Without Zhitnik in there it left a hole. We were kind of putting pairs together and trying to see what worked. It's a bad team to be trying to do that against. |
York's line has played outstanding. They're the flag bearers for us. Every other forward was iffy. They'd have a good shift, then a bad shift. We never generated any momentum. |