Oct. 15: Postgame Interviews

Oct. 15: Postgame Interviews

habits. Why weren’t they there tonight? Uh I mean I don’t know exactly why obviously. Um but yeah, I think just the details are obviously not uh sharp, but um yeah. How do you find it? I mean, especially after the two road games, you just had it looked like you were starting to build your game in the right way. Yeah, obviously I think we obviously had two great road games and I think it’s just going to start here at next practice and um just come prepared for next practice. obviously day off tomorrow, take care of ourselves and and just be ready to work uh come practice day Friday and obviously another tough opponent on Saturday. So, um yeah, I mean that’s a frustrating one obviously put that one behind us and just learn from it. Hope it’s early on and hopefully we can learn from that as a group and um just come to practice ready Friday and and give ourselves the best chance to win moving forward. How do you explain these two home games, both both five goal losses? I mean, yeah, it’s not not uh not our group and not where where we want to be. Uh but um just like I said earlier, we’re going to we’re going to rebound as a group. We’re going to come ready to work. We have a great group in this locker room. Um we all believe in each other. We have uh like I said, a great group. We’re going to rebound and um just come come prepared to work for each other Friday at practice and obviously Saturday at at the game. Does that fall on the leaders to get everybody to start pulling on that same rope, I guess? Yeah, for sure. I think it’s uh I mean that’s where it starts for sure and uh just coming to the rink ready and uh everybody’s just got to uh I mean do their thing but obviously yeah if if you want to look there uh but as a group collectively we we got to work together we got to push each other in practice and um I think it’s no matter no matter where you are and how many games you’ve played or or anything like that but it definitely starts with with the leaders and uh making sure that everybody is sharp and uh ready to go. Why? Um I mean definitely agree with them. Habits and details aren’t there especially at home and um we have to take pride in in playing hard for one another uh especially at home and and and make it a hard place to play and um you know I take uh full responsibility for that. Obviously I can help with that and and lead the charge and um you know I think just one things you can control is is uh your compete level and your habits and uh we and and I uh have to be better at that. Why do you think it’s been that way at home? Um, it’s a uh fair question. It’s been only two games and um we have a um you know I think just think through you know two road games um you know even six periods on the road we played uh four good periods. So, we we need to we need to clean up a lot of things with our habits and details and and tracking and and uh puck play and uh willingness to compete for one another. Um you know, I think it just starts with that. Have you kind of talked to the goalenders and let them know it’s it’s a whole team thing? Oh, I don’t think we’re worried about our goalenders at all. Um we have two of the best goalies in the league in a great tandem. Uh if you want to talk about um the goals, uh you know, uh let’s maybe talk about the team and how we’re giving up oddman rushes and point blank chances. So you can talk about the goals all you want, but I think if we’re not doing a good good enough job in front of them, that’s just simple. Yeah, they’ve kept you in games so many times and Monty was just mentioning too, sometimes you have to win a game five to four. Oh, I mean absolutely. Like I said, people are going to look at our goalenders. I think we’re looking at ourselves individually and looking at us as a team playing in front of them and we just haven’t good enough done a good enough job uh defensively uh especially at home um uh in front of them. So um obviously the goalies would say different but as players we feel we need to do a way better job. Where did that one kind of get away from us? Well, in the first period, you know, we we showed good resolve, came back twice, and then uh just, you know, our habits um just weren’t consistent enough for to play winning hockey. Can’t give up that many oddman rushes. We can’t give up that many great A looks off the rush. You feel like that was the case after putting together the two games you put together? Um yeah, you know, I thought that uh our game was building the right way uh in Vancouver. Um but our execution today uh did not match the Hawks execution. On the goenders, you’ve been so good just an off night starting with hope. Yeah, I mean, you know, our tandem is excellent, you know, and um some nights you’re going to win games 2-1. Uh we won in Calgary, we won in Vancouver because our goalenders are excellent. Sometimes we need to win games 5-4. What was the the reasoning behind the timing of uh pulling hope for in the second period there? I thought that we had lost our energy and I just wanted to try and see if we’d get a spark. And then the reasoning putting them back in there, I just let him finish the game out. Let him to finish the game out, you know, like see if something could happen, you know. Would you even say anything to him, you know, after, you know, difficulty gives him something that maybe they don’t or do you just leave him alone? I just leave him alone and during the game, you know, in particular, like when you see the way he’s handling the puck or maybe struggling with handling the puck, is that an indication that he’s not completely on his game? Oh, I I think that’s an indication for any player, you know, like if Yeah, your decision- making is not at the same level that you’re used to seeing it, you know, that um it could be an indication that a player’s not on his game. Do you think it was any case of uh after the two wins playing well, hey, we’ve got this thing figured out, we just got to go, play the game, be let down a little bit? No, I mean, we’re playing the Hawks, division rival, our biggest rival, and I I don’t think that was the case. I just we didn’t execute well, you know, and that that’s just our our mental sharpness was not great. And I know it’s easy to make the connection, but any reason you see about the way the team’s played at home in the two years? Yeah, I I I think uh I you know, we’ll watch the tape, we’ll look back at it. Um, this game got away with us got away from us because of our own habits and actions. The oddman rushes against is that just lack of connectivity with the five guys or how does that Yeah, it’s you know reloads and gaps are a big part of how we want to play and the reloads were not consistent and that makes it hard on the defenseman.

Hear from Colton Parayko, Brayden Schenn and Jim Montgomery after an 8-3 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 15, 2025.