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Game 82: Sharks at Jets TT: 00:10:00
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It's time for the Sharks Morning Skate
with all the latest on San Jose Sharks Hockey.
Here are your hosts Dan Ruzanowski and Drew Remenda.
Once more with feeling our Morning Skate Show
comes to you from Winnipeg Manitoba
where it's 28 degrees Fahrenheit
and the only place is colder is Saskatoon Saskatchewan
where I just looked through it is 17 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yeah.
It's April.
What do you guys expect?
Do you want sunny weather?
Because somewhere else.
Well, we're going to be going somewhere else
after the game tonight.
Of course, kind of a long night last night
with some stormy weather flying we had to divert
the way we flew to get to Winnipeg.
But there's one more game left.
I don't care if the guys are bluer out or whatever.
They got to flush out that third period.
Get a victory of their last game of the season
against a team that wants to do the same thing
and I want to talk about one concept.
There's a lot of regret obviously
and they didn't make the playoffs.
They were so close to doing it.
But you want to end the season with no regrets
about your effort and about your performance.
What about that going through the locker room right now?
Well, let's see.
Your work is focus on things you can control.
You can control your effort.
You can control your attitude.
You can control what you do with the puck when you have it.
There's a singularly focused individual
asked to think about what is the best way
for me to impact the team?
How do I go about doing that?
And the way that you do that
is for a simple brand across South hockey.
It's going to be one of my keys to it.
Yesterday, even from the start of the game on turnovers,
turnovers, turnovers, turnovers.
I don't know how many times I'm going to watch players
from one side of the ice in the offensive zone.
Make a backhand, no look pass, hoping to the middle.
It's not there.
It's just not there.
And so the game has to be played
in a simple straightforward fashion.
You come up with high energy.
You manage the puck properly.
And as I said, you focus on what you can control.
You skate like you know what?
And keep your feet moving.
And understand you're going to play a heavy game tonight.
You better play heavy game tonight.
At least you're going to be forced to play heavy game tonight.
Because we're going to play heavy.
We're going to play as a physical team.
Winnipeg has got a team that likes to go to the body
and can play fast.
They didn't earlier in the year.
That's probably why they are where they are.
But this is a game that's going to be testing you.
And don't be thinking you can get to cruise through
the next two and a half hours then and go.
Oh, it's over.
And it's going to be fine.
It's going to be a hard game play.
If you are head coach to Remenda of the San Jose Sharks
and you're going to meet.
Thank goodness you're not.
Thank goodness I'm not.
Because they wouldn't be in this position where they are now.
They'd be lower.
Well, that aside, if you were head coach to Remenda
and you were meeting with the leadership group this morning,
what would you be talking to them about what you need to get them
to do to drag everybody into what you're talking about?
That's exactly what I want to do.
I would say, guys, listen, we can control what we can control.
And what you guys can control is everybody's mood.
Everybody's attitude.
Everybody's five process going into this game.
Keep them focused.
But keep it light.
This team plays way better in their loose as far as emotionally
and mentally, not on the race loose.
But just loose.
Have some laughs and enjoy the moment.
You had a good season, not where we wanted to be.
You had one more game to finish, where you wanted to finish,
which is going to be another win.
So keep it loose.
But keep them engaged.
Don't let them get quiet.
Don't let them get intrinsic.
Don't let them get those inner thoughts, those demons
that we all have talking to us.
Keep it loose.
Keep it fun.
Remember, talk to them about everybody about going out
and just playing the game.
That you've done thousands of times in your life with success
for us who wouldn't be.
So keep it loose.
Keep it fun.
But keep them focused.
The guy I have the most empathy or sympathy for
is Tyler Tufoldy, because he had a goal taken away
from him last night.
And his 10th-20 goal season, you know, obviously he doesn't
score tonight.
Well, then he's got 19 and he's sitting that one goal away
from getting to that mark, which is a really important mark
for any player, especially as he gets to the stage of his career.
But what are the things that you can do if you're a
shark's player is feed off the energy of the guys that are
going to be playing tonight that haven't been playing?
For instance, John Clingberg, 700 NHL game.
I fill up courage.
I think these two guys have been real professionals.
As has Nick Letty before that, in dealing with the fact
that they're veteran players and they haven't been playing
for this team, do something for them to make sure
that they're light and loose and playing.
For Genda, D'Landria, Kyrusha, Clingberg,
we're all going to be in.
And when you look at those guys, they have been great
professionals.
They've been terrific as far as being out the ice after.
And we watched them yesterday.
We watched them the other day.
On the ice after, D'Landria was playing
student skating games, working on everything,
being upbeat, being positive in the room.
No self-respect was in that room.
It was a great culture in that room.
But you're absolutely right.
One thing that you have to do is play for each other.
And times that are as tough as times,
the hard times, that one last game of the year before you
head off to wherever you're going to go.
Those guys, I mentioned a lot of those guys
that we already talked about.
We don't know where they're going to be next year.
We don't know if they're going to be single as a shark.
We don't know if they're going to be in somewhere else.
We don't know if they're going to be in the NHL.
So, play for them.
Play for each other.
That's what this team has done really well.
Very well, too.
Yeah.
Yeah, put a guy.
What an unreal dude.
I'm hoping the best with Mario for Lowell
because he is a huge part of the single as a shark.
But, you know, it's a great game and it's a lousy business.
That's just the way it is.
It is indeed.
Where it is that Eric Polkamp is going to be
signed to a contract for next year.
I don't think that surprises anybody after the season.
He had he played injured the last couple of games
in the NCAA playoffs.
And so, this kid is another part of the bright future
that the sharks have with draft picks coming in.
The only thing that's really going to be solved today
potentially is where the sharks at least get the balls
and the lottery to get a chance to get to the first pick.
And we'll see how it happens.
I guess it often depends on who wins with the Edmonton game.
Is that it?
Yeah.
So, you know, all of that, again,
is going to be stuff that Michael is going to be looking at
and the scouts and hockey operations people.
For the guys, Eric Polkamp coming in and he's got a bomb
of a shot.
There's a lot of good things that I like about him.
Loose the puck extremely well.
One of those guys like Luke again,
the only thing you can get the puck up quickly to mark
you know, to Maclin and Will and Ternishov.
He said, so when you look at that coming in, again,
bright young talent, young, on defense.
It's a tough position to learn.
But overall, he is every place he's been.
He's been a success.
So, no reason to think that coming into this culture,
coming to this team,
that he won't have the same success.
Well, the culture is a really big part of it.
And obviously, the culture is going to get him through
this game against the Winnipeg Jets.
This is not an easy barn to win in.
The Jets are a team that play a heavy style of hockey.
Adam Lowry, a big part of that, obviously.
And they've got a couple of new kids that are coming into the game too.
They're going to have a slightly different lineup.
But where do you go in this game?
What do you need?
I think the way you beat the Winnipeg Jets,
and one thing the sharks do,
when they're playing well, when they're managing the puck properly,
is they play quick.
Every team, in fact, I talked to Adam Lowry
after the game in San Jose,
and you guys are quick.
And, you know, I look at him and I go,
and we are.
Every team, every guy that talks to you after a game,
the sharks are quick.
But they're quick when they manage the puck.
It's a North-South game.
I can't stress it enough tonight against this team.
It's a North-South game.
Get the puck moving.
Quick up the ice, get the puck behind her deep.
Yeah, I know the top line's going to do what the top line does,
but don't turn the puck over in the noodles.
And don't turn the puck over in the middle of the ice.
Get pucks behind, work for your chances.
Well, it is April in the beautiful, beautiful Midwest of Canada.
It is 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's 17 degrees in Saskatoon.
You're going to be headed back to that Paris of the Prairies
at some point in the summer.
It'll be warmer by the time you get there.
We will do our playoff show a couple times a week.
It's going to be a fun playoff.
What do you think about the prospect?
I can't wait.
I'm laughing because it's going to be the LA Kingston
and Edmonton Hoyers again, I guarantee.
It is, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
How about those Kings fans?
They've got to be losing it.
I'm Jake Hooper-Tar, last time through.
I'd like to see him go far.
I am.
The sharks didn't make it, but I'm happy for them.
They're good dudes.
We've talked money for them.
Well, they're good dudes.
They're not so hikily.
But yeah, it's going to be five times in a row now.
I think that's what's going to happen.
The oiler's in the Kings.
Well, that's the way it's going to be.
And we're going to have that playoff show for you
a couple of times a week on the Shark Saudi Network.
I also want to thank you, Drew, for spending the time
with us all season long on this show.
It's extra stuff.
We did a lot of great stuff with Nick Nolan Berger
and the Veracuda.
And we're looking forward to a great, great, great summer.
And so thanks.
Like this.
Features to you, buddy.
It's been my pleasure.
I was always so happy to be back in San Jose.
So happy to be with the sharks.
It's family.
It's fantastic.
And with that, that's the Morning Skate Show today.
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