Dec. 11: Postgame Interviews

Dec. 11: Postgame Interviews

It seems like we catch you on a lot of these tough games, but um how did this how does another one like this get away? um soft soft in front of our own net, soft in front of their net and um give good players time and space to score goals or second chances and um leaving Ber out to hang out to dry on some and uh that’s how we keep on giving up as many goals as we are um right now. Should this be happening in December games? I mean, you would almost think I mean, no. Like, flat out answer, no. We said we just just we’re um we’re not hard enough in front of either net and that’s why we don’t score and that’s why we uh give them up. How do you change it? Mentality. It’s not It’s just simple. Uh as far as a mindset goes and we just don’t do it and and that’s every single guy. Um and uh you know we have to um um you know commit to the little habits of the details um to you know play for one another uh or if not uh you keep on getting embarrassed. Does the group need just a little soularching I guess? I don’t know. It just Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Like it’s it’s it’s everything. It’s um confidence. It’s frustration. It’s um guys trying to find their games and um right now um I said just in this past little five stretch here I said we’re just we’re just giving up too many goals and I said we’re leaving our good goalies hang out to dry. I guess you’d like to more or less see it in the win. But uh how did that first one feel? Yeah, it felt good honestly. Um dream about scoring in the NHL so it finally came felt good but yeah obviously would like to get a win. take us through the play and how it developed. Yeah. Um Broberg was just, you know, couple cutbacks in the corner. I popped out to the slot area, tried to pass it to me, went to Fabry in front of the net, made a beautiful pass to me, and I just one timed it in. Feel like a little redemption, too, after maybe as a line. You got a little bit of a tough first period, I guess. Yeah, tough start for our line for sure. Going minus two, it felt good to, you know, get us one back. Kind of get us into the game a little bit. your captain just use the word soft in front of your net, soft in front of their net. Does that pretty much sum it up? The last two games we’ve been um not hard enough at either net front. We don’t get there too on the inside. That’s where uh good teams in the NHL score goals, screening the goalie, and having two guys whacking away at rebounds like you saw them score three or four times tonight. And we’re not boxing out at our net front. The physicality and our Dzone coverage the last two games has really dissipated. Why do you feel like that’s the case right now? I no uh I don’t have a have to watch the film back and then come with you as to why they but we showed five clips of it from last game this morning you know that this was an area especially at our own net front that it was a area of concern for us Braden just talking about that it’s got to be a mindset I mean from a coaching perspective how can you change the mindset of players to to do things the right way. We just got to keep harping on those habits and details, you know. Um, for whatever reason since uh we come back from Montreal, we have we’ve lost those habits and that um desire to um the desire to defend our net hard and our desire to get that to their net with passion and taking Bennington out was just basically the team the way they were playing in front of them I guess tonight. Yeah, I mean uh you know last couple of games our goalies have had no chance, you know, with the way we’re playing in front of them. The second I think in in the first period they had four rebound attempts and three broken play attempts. That’s just us not cover our coverage in front of the net. I guess on a positive side seeing McGain get his first NHL goal and Shen said, you know, little redemption after maybe a tough first period for that group. Yeah, I mean it was nice to see Hugh get his first goal. It’s always a um monumental event, you know, for in his life and it bring brought good energy to our bench. Um I also thought Robbie Fabry was our best work. That’s I was going to ask you, what did you think of his game? What did you like about it? I loved his habits and details like he was at the net front screening. Um he got his assist being at the netfront passing it over to Hugh. Um he was uh finishing checks, he was winning wall battles. All those little things that help your team have success. Can his habits, what you saw tonight, maybe resonate with the rest of the group when they see a new guy come in and do those doing Yeah, you see the infection, you you hope that it’ll be infectious throughout our lineup. And, you know, we got an opportunity to regroup tomorrow night against the Hawks, our biggest rival. So, we look forward to tomorrow night at home.

Brayden Schenn, Hugh McGing and Jim Montgomery after a 7-2 loss to the Nashville Predators on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025.