04-04 Lindy Ruff Postgame

It's more the first goal, make the other team chase you and to see if that hasn't been the case thing.

Is it like you're always chasing? Is that been huge?

I think that's a big thing.

I think we can't defend as poorly as we did this first couple of goals.

I mean, we left two guys wide open, coverage wasn't good and it ends up in the back here now.

I think, you know, we've taken a lot of pride. I mean, our defensive play has been a big reason

why we got to where we got. We can't take that for granted.

We saw obviously what happened in the game, but what is the message at the time out?

Just clear heads and start over.

I talked about our defensive zone coverage.

Just talked about we got to get back. We got to stop inside. We were we were circling.

You know, I thought we fought our way back to 3-2. You look at the second period.

We have a 2-1. We don't execute. We've made the game 3-3 and that 2-1 turned into 2-1 the other way.

And they finished it and made it 4-2 and then now we're chasing the game again.

Did you change the goal just to kind of change the momentum and maybe shock the team a little bit?

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I mean, he wasn't out there covering those guys who were wide open.

He was trying to.

I mean, the way things have gone here, I mean, all of a sudden you're third in the division,

which seems kind of shocking given where you've been for weeks. I mean, how does this team,

you know, refocus for Monday and weekend?

I think you just have to refocus. You look at some of those plays that we made in our own end.

You know, weren't good enough.

You know, and if you start cheating a little bit on offense, it hurts you.

And I thought a couple times we got in the wrong side of the puck and it hurt us.

How can you get your defensive game back? Because you know you have a good defensive game.

It starts. I mean, it starts with breaking the puck. We haven't broke the puck out well enough.

I mean, even I think the first or second goal in Boe had it.

It should be a play where we're breaking the puck out. We turn that over and turn over like that when

we have the puck. You know, our players are automatically starting. I had the other direction.

So everything's connected. Break the puck out better. You know, buy a little more time for your

defense going back. After you change the power play, you had a few good games. Are there some things

you got away from last game in tonight? Yeah. Power play made a lot of good decisions tonight.

You know, a couple of them. I know they're going made a couple of saves, but I didn't like our five

on three and then the late five on five on four. We give up, you know, give up the two and one

again for for another goal against wasn't. I didn't execute very well. How do you feel your

teams handling the elevated intensity and desperation of your opponents? You know, I think the opponent

has won that battle. I would just reference to start of the game. You know, the game against Ottawa,

obviously we got the one nothing lead. There wasn't a lot going on. There wasn't a lot for

chances either way. You know, you're sitting at one one halfway through the third period.

Tonight's a different story. You know, you start a game like that. It's hard. We've been good at

coming back in games and we we almost fought our way back. I thought they're going made a couple

key saves a key times where we could have probably tied the game up, but to me, it just comes down

to defending on the whole defending. You can't give up and we hadn't been giving up those

type of opportunities. It's what you have coming on one day. Maybe the perfect chance to just get

the intensity back. It should be for sure. You know, the game where there's a lot of intensity

last time and maybe it's exactly what we need right now.