04-06 Lindy Ruff Postgame

You know how to wall wash in the game? I thought

Spend a lot of time with looking a lot of stuff this morning with the group and talking about how we need to play and I thought

Guys put in a great effort

What can you say about just the way out?

Yeah, I mean it was like a rapid fire chance in the second period where he could have had two or three and

Great goal to lead it off

But I thought he skated incredible in the game as I just penalty killing was really good

It was a big night for me. I mean our that's not our top players had a good night like Norse had a good night and Alex had a good night

That Tom are really skated well competed. So it was a night. We needed our top guys and I thought they they came through for us

Look at that. It's on a saves, but I mean he was sharp all night

Yelp tools has a left ski just pretty hard on him. Yeah, there's some good saves

We made a great save on Corey Perry right there with about six minutes left in the third period

I thought both goal tenders made funny good saves

Didn't have a lot but had to make good saves and

He gave us a great effort the big reason why we won two

I'm just the way

Into the game they pull that celestial with the more flying on the ice and eat

You know crowds of puck right off the draw it holds it to get your four flying off

It's just a play a goal. He has to really be into the game to know what to do with that

Yeah, I mean a good a great thinking by them to pull the goalie at that moment

But countered by what he did was it wasn't just tells you how into the game he was and

He even tried for an empty net goal which I thought at the end of that I said to him hell of a try

This wasn't as animated of a game is the last meeting between the two teams was that

Important ways of the team this game really keep your composure against the lighting

That didn't seem like they wanted to be animated so it was a it was a game

I think both teams knew the importance of winning a hockey game

What do you make of what this Atlantic division race is gonna come down to over these next 10 days?

Just one heck of a battle. I mean, I think yet when you look at it

You got to take a lot of pride in the fact that you made the playoffs in a year where this division and this conference was so incredibly tough

I

I think the the effort by our group from December on

Has been I mean has been sort of second to none to get to where we're at

This was a big game for us. This was a big test for us tonight because

We knew how big this game was we knew it was against the team was sitting there just ahead of us

We didn't play well in the previous two games and good teams know how to

You know have some pushback and I thought our guys had great pushback

You got a big save when we're going to immediately to see tend to when he makes that big save right off the bat

You know you've got him for the game. It seems like you really

Fueled him when he makes that big save right off the bat. I think it helps any goal tender

At the same time I think it hurt some guys when they don't make it but I think

Getting that good save you it always got to feel good. I mean

Not a goalie, but you would have to think that

You know you're seeing the puck you're moving while you made a good save and and

You got to feel good, you know from that point on that

You're seeing the puck pretty well

You're one of a few guys that knows how electric this bar can be

When it's playoffs or playoff type atmosphere

Given that how important is it for your young team

For home ice advantage to be able to be fueled by what we saw tonight. Yeah, I think the the energy and the building wasn't was incredible the

I think you could you could sense tension you could sense

Excitement you could you know when the game got too to it was it was like a real playoff atmosphere where you know

You know the game could go either way. They're waiting for our response the response when we scored was incredible

You know I saw a few clips before the game of some stuff in the

Where they had the haggle thing and people were punched in the haggle dummy on the way into the building here

I just think that's part of it. You know everybody's into it and

You know, I think our fans have been waiting for this for a while. So it's good to see the look and the Logan Stanley

Luke Shen pairing how effective was that on defense tonight?

That's what in particular work. I think the other team was pretty quiet. So I think it was very effective

Yeah, you know, I think there are matchups that will work. I think there's you know if you need speed matchups

We've got we've got

Some guys in the back. We can utilize in for different opportunities

We felt this was going to be a game where we needed him. We needed his heaviness. I think he his penalty killing was good

I thought he knocked a few people over. I thought overall his puck play was was good inside the game and he kept the game in front of him

Like any good veteran player would do entertaining is that eight seven game was but

How important was it to hold that lead in the third period and not let it get loose?

He was seeing that way. I think we've seen a lot of third periods like this out of our club and we've talked about how we need to play

Don't do anything crazy

We'll get opportunities to impress we'll get opportunities if we don't

We know if we if we play the right way and we defend the way we've defended all year that we can close out the game at three two

And that's really the approach that you need to take is they need to score two and if if you don't hand them anything

You're probably got yourself a pretty good opportunity of winning a hockey game