You guys gave up the second goal seconds after you guys scored in the second period. Then they got two goals in 20 seconds in the third period. Is there an antidote to that? How do you deal with something like that? Or is it just something that happens occasionally? “I think it happens occasionally. I don't know if that’s something that occurs with our group on a regular basis. Obviously, when you score a goal, you want to be able to build on that momentum. Those are critical moments in games that we've got to take better control of. End of periods, beginning of periods, after goals are scored on either side – those moments in the games, in my mind, go a long way to dictating outcomes. We've got to do a better job controlling those.”
Sid was fairly blunt, he said he didn’t think the team was good in any area tonight. Can you hold that up to the ups and downs of the season? Or was there anything specific tonight that led to this outcome? “I don't know that there was anything specific. We just weren't very good. We just weren't very good. I'm not going to rationalize another answer. We weren't good enough.”
How important will it be just to have a short memory and try to get back to the things that put you on the winning streak in the first place? “Well, we have to. I mean, that's the league, right? That's the process we go through. We've got to figure out what we can take from it, and then we've got to be prepared to move by it. I just think that's the league. We've got to find a way to be better the next game. We’ve gotta get ready for the next one. We're playing a lot of hockey here. We got a lot of hockey moving forward. We just simply weren't good enough tonight.
A couple of their goals came off neutral zone turnovers. That's an area you guys did pretty good in the last few weeks. Just anything there that led to shortcomings? “A lot of them were just not executing a tape-to-tape pass. We had opportunities to make tape-to-tape passes. I thought we had a bunch of looks on the first period. We had a couple of 3-on-1s, 2-on-1s, a breakaway. We had a bunch of looks, we just didn't execute. I don't think we were sharp in any aspect of the game. Some of those turnovers that you were talking about, we had opportunities to go tape to tape to make a pass and we missed it, for whatever reason.
Do you have any concerns about the consistency from Tristan Jarry (who gave up five goals on 31 shots after winning four in a row)? “No, I think he's been pretty solid. I don't know that we could look at Tristan at this one, you know? I mean, I don't think we were very good in front of him. It was a collective effort on that front. I just don't think we were good enough as a group tonight.”
