POST-RAW | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 11.29.25

POST-RAW | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 11.29.25

Ryan, I want to start by asking you about your goalie and Steuart Skinner and the game that he provided you guys today and how important that was. Yeah, I mean just steady right from the get-go. Um I thought we we controlled the pace early but we took some penalties um that obviously you need your goalie to be kicking on the PK. So, uh he did a great job of that and that kind of fed into his five on five game and made some big saves saves when we need him to. You mentioned those penalties. You guys were able to be perfect on the penalty kill. What was the key to that success today? Um, I mean, staying within our system, trusting it. Um, trying to keep things outside for sure. Uh, and then like like guy said, uh, you got to rely on him sometimes back there and, uh, he did a great job. But, yeah, I thought we were just trusting our system and working together. We were able to see the first power play unit, you know, that we’re used to seeing all of you guys together. What did you like about what you were able to create obviously with those two two power play goals? Uh, I think the way that we kind of worked to get pucks back there, uh, that’s what started it. Um it’s not always going to be clean and easy, but uh to get pucks back, then they’re out of out of position a little bit. And uh I mean the first one’s just a great play by Bushi, but um yeah, I think it’s going to start with our work. Uh then we can make plays off that. What does a win like this four nothing victory do after a game like Tuesday night? Yeah, I mean this is how you want to respond for sure. Uh no question about it. Um but now we look forward to the next one and on Tuesday we’ll take a day obviously to um um get a little rest and then uh back at it Monday. But uh yeah, I mean this is how you want to respond and uh shows a lot of good things for our group. Ryan, what did you make of kind of the extracurriculars happening in this game? Uh well, I mean it started with one one hit obviously that should have been called and uh we’re going to stand up for each other and um I mean I I didn’t think anybody did anything um to kind of put us down and uh take us out a bit, but obviously you’re going to stand up for each other and uh make sure that they know when something like that happens, it’s not uh not just going to go

Ryan chats after collecting a goal and an assist in his return to the lineup against the Kraken.