Hurricanes
Brind'Amour: It's one game, but we certainly don't want it to bleed into two
Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour recapped the game one loss to the Rangers and where the power play can be better
Know, you, all right guys, I don't expect that there was, but when we went back and looked at last night, we, and you think you felt differently about, especially sort of five on five in the 2nd and 3rd periods when you guys seem to get to your game. Yeah. No, I mean, yeah, we gotta be a little bit better in all areas, obviously, maybe one area in particular. But, um, you know, they like a great team over there and you, they had to make high end plays on the goals. I mean, that's, that's the other thing. I mean, that's, that's part of it. So, um, we gotta just find a way to be a lot much better. Did you like, you know, the, the nature's goal as a, you know, using speed and getting through the nut? Is that something you can exploit in this series that maybe wouldn't have been there last year? I mean, we all, you know, you have an idea of how you wanna do things and just, you draw it up and sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't. But you, um, you know, we used, uh, and that play it was certainly that speed that got, got it. But there was a, you know, a method in there beforehand. So, yeah, like I said, we gotta be a little better in all areas. Um, if we expect to beat these guys, this is a physical series, but you also need to stay out of the box. How do you walk that line as you can? That's for sure. Those are the ones they always get you. So, you know, you always, you want in and make sure you do it within the, the rules because they will call penalties, right? So I thought we actually did a pretty good job on that and the other night, you know, one like to have back maybe. Um, but it happened quick and other than that, I mean, I thought it was ok, Rod is learning how to lose a big part of a playoff journey. Well, that's what you say when you lose, but there, there's part of the experience. So maybe that's a better, you know, when you've been through all of it. Um, it certainly helps. Um, but I don't think anybody really, I mean, you do, you learn from everything, well, you're not gonna go, you need to. Well, yeah, I mean, it's, it's one game we know we, we were right there. I mean, it's not like, you know, we, we understand where we lost the game and we gotta be better in some areas, but we did some really good things too that can't be overlooked and we gotta build on. So, you know, like you said, it's one game can't, you know, we certainly don't want to bleed into two. So we gotta, it could be that much better tomorrow at this time of year. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously we've had some success here, but that doesn't really help us much. So, so you're welcome coming across the river for practice today. Well, that wasn't ideal. Um But that was the options, right? So um felt like we got a lot of time off coming into the series. So I think it just felt like it was the right thing to do. I'm talking with Sebastian those opportunities. He said a lot of it was just the timing and the body language and the littlest bit quicker and we had our looks, we had our looks, we just, you know, um we didn't commerce and that's the difference, right? So we gotta find a way to, you know, get more looks. I mean, that's you, you'd like to have more opportunities when you get your power plays, but they did a nice job. Um you know, blocking shots and doing what they did, pressure us at the right times and, and, you know, the execution wasn't quite where it needed to be. But again, that's, that's the, that's the nature of the game. Both, both. I mean, you're trying to, you know, as the game's going on, you're trying to make little adjustments for you and then obviously after they're look it through and see where they can be better and the final analysis on their power play goals, you basically just say we did what we were trying to do and they beat us on those plays or are there things you have to, you want to change based on it's a bit of both. I mean, I think at the end of the day they made three high end plays. I mean, generally if you, that's, you tip your hat, I mean, we know that's exactly what they were trying to do, but we also know that too and we just were tad late and I, like I said, you tip your hat. They made a, from start to finish, there were some high end passes in there and that's, that's what they're capable of doing it. But, you know, I mean, I think he had the post last night on the power play and tight, he's, I mean, he's just feel like every other game he's rung one off the post or he's, he's been around it. Um, we just gotta keep getting him those opportunities. He can, he can go wherever and I think that's, uh, you know, testament to him, very young kid to figuring it out. Um, it's certainly a, you know, a bonus for coach to, to know he doesn't matter what situation you want to throw. Him in, he, he thrives and the guys that are next man up. Do you live in the same? Is that their job? And they need to know they need to be ready. Yeah. I don't, I don't think anybody needs to be told that. All right.