04-06 Lindy Ruff Postgame

0:00You 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

1:02Didn'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?

2:05Just 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

3:06Getting 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

4:10Where 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

5:13Like 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