04-02 Lindy Ruff Postgame

Gated, the out-competed, their desperation level was just higher than us.

It was simple as that.

And you were in a 1-1 game through 40 minutes, right?

Probably what he wanted to be.

It just seemed like he didn't get much in that third period all of yet.

I thought they were better than us.

Simple as that.

Their compete was better.

They won more battles.

You look at the empty net, even the fourth goal.

We have four guys in the corner.

They have one, and they're going to come out and score an empty net goal.

We dump it in, and we just give them a break away on the 6th and 5th.

No, we weren't good.

We weren't good enough to win the game.

This is one of the easiest days to talk about compete and desperation to see what was on the line today.

I'm just being honest about what I saw.

It's not difficult to talk about.

It's what I saw.

What was it that we've been talking about in the room through 40 minutes?

Got to win more battles.

Talked about winning more battles.

Didn't feel like we were coming out of the corners with any puck.

And a lot of the wall battles were going their way.

How disappointing is it with their defenses completed as it was?

That's all we talked about was, you know, they were down to five, and we didn't stress them out enough.

I just felt, didn't generate enough high-quality opportunities.

And the game was sitting there, and they took it over.

It's just nor so if you did go off at the end.

You got kicked out of there?