INSIDE THE LOCKER ROOM: Jeff Blashill, Wyatt Kaiser & Nick Foligno REACT to 5-1 Loss vs Florida

This season, what was happening tonight that some neighbor doing or what you guys weren't doing at the third period just kind of

Swung away. Yeah, it wasn't good enough third period for sure, and you know, there's been times we find really good thirds. We just

You know, we probably weren't generating enough offense throughout the game

We didn't have a lot of punch certainly the Dickinson line was the best line probably by a lot

You know, but they

Other than that, we just weren't generating a ton. We even proud, but we did you know, I thought we still did a good job checking

There wasn't much going on. I think the great days after two periods for us was two for us and one for them

So not much that happened in the game

And that's just the way these games are. I mean, this is how you know, this how it's gonna be if we want to be a good team

You're in a lot of these games and you gotta go on and stay with it, and you know, I think we

Make a little bit of them you know, self-inflicted air goes and are not and it's too one we're fine

And I just didn't like the way we played after that and we played good enough and we gave up

You know, again kind of not a lot, but just goals that are available

What would you like to see to get the dark going a little bit more and out it's been a bit more games since he's come back?

Yeah, I mean, I think you know be the first to you

You know since he's been back

I think there's been moments where he's going good and

Moments where he hasn't and you know, I think that's the oven flow of

Reality at times in the year. That's what happens with guys sometimes and you're on a long time man

And and you know, it's hard to get your

Mojo back sometimes and he's just working as a mojo back and you know, we've kind of played the lines. Maybe that's hurt him

Not having consistency there

You know, sometimes you're trying to help

Spark guys and you end up hurting them by making too many changes, so

but you know again, he's

He can't fault the work ethic you can't fault the care just hasn't but you know, it just hasn't

Gone the way that it had prior to him getting hurt

You have him to shuffle line

Probably probably over-searching

Trying to find the right combination and

You know, again, I think sometimes you do that it hurt your team

So something to look at and kind of decide okay, what are we going to just do with that

Seems like the power plays in a little bit of a fun grant. I was there anything specifically that

Isn't working well. I don't think your breakouts have been very good

Probably your breakouts and retrievals haven't been good. No certainly the breakouts for sure

I mean our percent has been real low

You know the prior I think five games I don't think it was a ten-year segment

We actually scored a lot now that was like both units were scoring and

So we're gonna have to get back to you know better balance on the pp

We're gonna probably tweak it with some players or something like that

Also, we've got to bring the puck in better you know when we're loose puck recovery

And that's that little team with the left-shaftness

It seems like it times we're just some of those simple plays where he's

Trying to pass it too hard

Well, that one wasn't too hard, but there's you know certainly that that you know

There's moments where you know he passes a great and

You know moments where we miss you know, he probably yeah, sometimes I think when he's got a lot of time

He's just got to he's got to keep that focus in on

I mean, you know, it's almost like when you're under pressure

You're forced to be laser-in and sometimes when he's got time maybe

We're just gonna make sure that focus is just a laser-in

So you know, and it's a ultimately the box still came in and we lost about on the wall

Like we had an opportunity wasn't like a big bang bang, but yes, you know, that's what I'm talking about

I mean, so you know, you make the one mistake

You have the puck your stick it's a five-per-fiber pass, we can't take the tape and you have a sacred stake

You lose about on the wall, you know, some of those are two big mistakes

Bertuzzi

Dickinson and McKay have seemed to gel pretty well. They're doing great. Yeah, they've been really good

Played together. I think they're on the same page. They all play the same way

And they they played the fastest of all our team in the ozone

You know, I've talked to a predictability in those only they did that, you know

They were they were faster than they their puck speed was great

They knew where each other were and they did a really good job of that so

You know, it's been that that's aligned. That was definitely bright spot for us tonight

Just little details were missing. Maybe if that's come back in the diesel and maybe supporting a little bit

It's kind of like deep to support through the neutral zone just trying to get a little clean

I just think a lot of little things added up

And if it really against us

What do you see on the on the golden and I keep them in the way out there?

Yeah, I mean, I was just trying to keep it quite kind of close tight gap. The blue one knows the exits and

I just hopped out through it down

Kind of got it on my forehand. So I like I cheats the wall a little bit

So slip middle and then just making you open up. So just threw it over there quick

and happened click

When things are kind of going wrong in that third period

I guess what's the best way you guys can kind of regain confidence in game

Honestly, I think when something goes wrong

It's still like understanding we have to keep making plays you keep playing our game

It's I think it's sometimes the mindset of like

Hey like we made a mistake. We have to immediately just like simplify. I mean, there's a fine line between it being very simple

And also having plays with the puck clean breakouts

Making plays through the neutral zone when it dumps

And so I think it's just finding that balance to be honest but still having confidence in our game that something goes on

Yeah, yeah, which is

Disappointing because I think our thirds have actually been overfared and especially against the team

That's just played a tough schedule. I think I'm in real late

You know all the excuses. It's just got to get that job

That's the hard part of it. Tonight was one of those ones where you feel like you beat yourself

Just the goals that we gave up were just great

The way we normally know how to play and

Not really as in the cases for a while here. So it's uh, it's disappointing

Because it's time to hear if that's just go to the algae of trying to win because you've got to grind it out

You have to be in there more detail than the other team. You have to be willing to do the hard things

We just want to do that

Yeah, I mean that's a huge goal right here to a lot of times it's a momentum goal and to come back and the next one

It kind of not really have the answer that we were supposed to support you but I think that's what's things because it's just a game where it really is

Who's going to stick to it more and they obviously did

Generally for the specifically did to get you guys off or was it also well

They're just they're really confident in who they are. They're really confident in the way they play

So they just know that over time battle of attrition

They're just going to break you down or get those opportunities, right?

And I think it's a good lesson for us to just take away from this game of how you have to stay with it

Championship teams do it

You know that's that's probably the biggest takeaway for us is like that's why we talk about the things we talk about

The details of our system the way we need to play they do they don't really bring what they do

And there are still opportunities to win that game especially against the team that you know

It's a little tired but they find ways to win because they trust their system and then

each other and they get the job done and that's just where we cannot

You know, lost ourselves a little bit

Yeah, and I think just our play right it's just the way we need to be a little more predictable

You know when he was out and that's what our bread and butter was so to speak right we were just a little more lunch

Vale and

You know, he's gonna find his way throughout that

But I think we haven't been as predictable

Makes it tough he's a guy that's keyed on a lot of the games and

So he's trying to find his way through but we can help as a team by being a little bit more

predictable like I said and I think it just gets a flow of the game more lines over and over now

We're confident. We're we're having a momentum and then Connor gets to do his thing

So, you know, we need we need everyone to be a little bit better

This is the time of year where you you can entrench yourself into that playoff push and we don't want to let these games slip away

Do you think fighting confidence in mid game like that when things are going that way

It's kind of something very young team like this. It's important

I mean, I think it's it's the learning curve for us as a young team about understanding

You know how to build your confidence right and who we are

We I think we all really enjoy the system that we have in place and how it allows us to play and it's a fun game

Right and so I think we just need to understand that stick with a little bit more sometimes

You know, he has a young player and he doesn't leave us as older players

You just get a little bored with it because you're it's not breaking. It's not happening

You don't trust that it's going to have it and I think that's just because we don't have an experience where it came like Florida

They they have that they have the results to back it up and you know

We need to trust this process a little bit more and realize that it's it's going to help succeed and it has and that's just you know

The stubbornness is as youth and it's like telling your kids over and over right so

But I think you know for us it's a good lesson going into a tough little road trip

Luckily, if the mom's trip coming up so it's going to be our best behavior