Jared Bednar PRAISES Landeskog & JOKES About Wedgewood’s Assist After Avs WIN vs Rangers

Reminder to raise your hands for questions. Strong group Bailey. Coach, resilient is a word that Mard used a lot postgame too. Can you just talk about what a testament that is to the Saxs group right now? Yeah, I mean they got the right mindset mentality that it’s not going to be easy and that we’re going to have to work for our results and I think it’s a fair description of our team to this point in the season. Jesse, coach, I believe it’s fourth team in NHL history to hit the 20 game mark with just one regulation loss. I think that’s right. Uh, you know, you talked about the consistency of this group last game, but just what can you say about maybe it’s that resilience, but the way that you guys can find your game, uh, you know, whether it be good start and you get away from it or or just whatever. You guys seem to be able to get to your game every night right now. I think that’s um leadership. It’s what it is. It’s it’s it’s the focus of the whole entire group, but if we get off track or things aren’t going the way we want them to go, um the leadership group has done a nice job of like getting guys back on track and focused on the right things. You know, like the message on the bench is not just coming from the coaches, it’s coming from the players and what needs to be done and you know what we can do better in certain areas. And on top of that, I like the way they’re delivering that message, too. You know, it’s it’s not just yelling and screaming. It’s delivered the right way and guys are taking accountability if they’re making mistakes and moving on to the next play. Colleen, then Ryan, do we have an update on Gavin Berling? Lower body. We’ll see how he presents tomorrow. Yeah, he was sore. You know, he got hit behind the net, got dinged up. um wasn’t able to come back out. So, not great news, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings. Then I should know more. Ryan, you’ve spoken a lot about Gabe Landers leadership and when you know he he came back onto the team that his in his positive influence has really helped out this group when he wasn’t around. What What was the difference? Was there more yelling and screaming or disagreements? What is Well, he certainly has like a calming effect on the room, right? like I he’s a very wellrespected guy for you know obvious reasons and so I think like if things start everyone has their own leadership style right but Landy seems to compliment all the other leaders that we have in the room or they complement his leadership style so um he’s the first one to sort of recognize things that and he’s the when he’s saying stuff everyone listens and his delivery is Perfect, right? Like he’s going to deliver the message the right way. And um so other guys can kind of sit back, relax a little bit more, and keep going about their business. And but still leading and just with your captain in the room, it’s it’s more calming influence than we have without him. Eric, and Kyle, you said a few games ago that Brock Nelson’s just been a little snake bit. He finishes the home with three goals and three assists. Is it just they’re finally going in or is there something more to it that you see? Well, I think he’s skating better with the puck right now. Um there were stretches like a couple of things that we showed him is like he does the right thing defensively. He skates, he checks hard, he gets puck back, he goes on the attack and there was times where we I felt like he’s such a strong skater that he needed to use his skating more both on entries into the offensive zone through the neutral zone and and then also in ozone play. Um, what I did like about his game is he was getting to the interior of the ice. He was still getting lots of shots from in there. High percentage of his shots are coming from in there and then he’s also around the net, middleman like for screens, tips, deflections, rebounds, that kind of thing. And he was picking up a fair number of those chances as well as well. So, there was some things that were real positive. There’s some things I think he needed to improve on. And I think he’s improved on the skating part of his game here on the home stand. He continues to shoot the puck and now they’re just going in for him. Kyle, then Megan, with Kale as a veteran now, I mean, any details to his game that you’re seeing this year that have resulted in his start and the point production we’re seeing? Kale? Yeah. Like I I think it’s just another level of consistency for him, you know, like I obviously has the ability to be a difference maker and game changer every night. I think um you know most nights he’s getting to his game on the offensive side of things and so I think it like for me it’s just incremental you know steps forward and most of it to me is probably just consistency. He has the ability to do it every night and this this series seems like he is Megan back to Aaron. I think early in this game and throughout the night, truthfully, uh, New York managed their lanes really well and made it difficult maybe to get as much on it as you’d like, but the shots battle was still so tilted heavily in favor of Colorado. Have you noticed that the team is not getting frustrated in those moments in terms of how they’re looking to create offensively? Yes. I think again it just kind of goes back to the focus and preparation like we’re preparing for the worst when we play these teams or like they’re all good teams we’ve been playing. Rangers have been an excellent road team. They’ve seemed to really have sort of found their stride here recently in their game. They played quicker tonight than some of the video I saw. But I thought they competed hard. They had a really good game, really good game plan. They were disciplined. Um, but we still feel like, you know, through the first period, we had a good first period. I think it was really tight checking and then the second we got a little bit more competitive in ozone play and started shooting the puck a little bit more, not looking for something fancy. And that rewarded us, I thought. And when our team kind of finds that balance of playing with the puck and making skilled plays and then also shooting and going to the dirty areas, it seems to snowball for our team. Um, so when things aren’t going well, we can kind of put the queue away a little bit and and make it a more workmanlike mentality, a little bit more meat and potatoes offensively and that seems to jumpst start our offense and then we can start making some other plays as well. And so when we find that balance and and our team recognizes it, it leads to good things. So yeah, no need to get frustrated when there’s still more than half a game to play. That’s kind of our message. Last two, AF and DMC 20 games in. This is the first time Gabe Landis Gogg plays over I think 16 minutes and he gets almost 19. Like obviously there was a guy that went down with injury, but this is obviously not the first time you’ve had that kind of game. Like has there been external factors outside of you just deciding when to play him? Are there like things that you guys are having to do to to to limit his ice time or is it just the feeling of what he’s play? Yeah, it’s just me deciding, you know, he he if he he wouldn’t like he wouldn’t be in the lineup if I didn’t feel like he could be playing a lot. Um it’s like tonight like I felt like that was one of Land’s best games. He was skating, hanging on to the puck. He looked like he had an extra little extra pep in his step. We’ve seen it before. Um some of those games were after two days off. Um here’s another one. Right. We had a we had a day off for him. It was two, then a practice day. And so that’s a good sign because I think eventually it’ll he’ll look like that all the time after one day off. Um but the the little a bit of extra rest is sure certainly giving him a little bit more um jump in his stride and he’s played good in those games. So when I recognize he’s playing good, I’m going to play him more regardless of injury or not. Go ahead. Anything special traditionalized when a goalie gets an assist, gets a point, doing anything for him? No.

Jared Bednar Press Conference After Colorado Avalanche WIN vs New York Rangers at home to win 7th staright game

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