Jared Bednar Happy About Power Play, Olofsson Hat-Trick After Avs WIN 8-4 vs Devils

Jared Bednar Happy About Power Play, Olofsson Hat-Trick After Avs WIN 8-4 vs Devils

Coach, are you more I’ll call on you guys. Dac, go ahead. Come on. You’ve been around a long time. Is it more frustrating uh because of what happened this second or more rewarding to just see how everything was kind of clicking today? It’s definitely not frustrating. I think you got to celebrate the wins. are hard to get in this league. And you know, we did a lot of really good things tonight. A lot of really good things. It looked to me like we were standing around a little bit in the first period on our half of the rink. Like our forch check was up and running and we were looked like we had a good shot mentality and seeing some things offensively. Um learned a little bit from our first game against them. Um at the same time then the second period I thought we really got skating and started to play some hockey but we some of our decision making like without the puck um was just not good. So to me I don’t know if that that can be fatigue you know guys are ready to work and everything but their brains just weren’t turned on. Um and we were coming off the back to back yesterday’s day off seemed like it flew right by. We were back here again today. It’s a tough game against a really good team that’s playing well. Um, so yeah, we we just adjusted our plan for the next couple days. You know, I think tomorrow we’ll take a good day off at home and get some good quality video review in and talk about our first segment, what we’ve been doing well and what we need to improve on and kind of go into this backtoback this weekend a little bit more rested. Jesse, then Bailey, coach, four power play goals coming into tonight, then four tonight, I guess. What did you see that was different or was it just the puck was going in? Well, I’ll give you one thing. Looked like tonight everyone wanted to shoot it right there. There it wasn’t skate around, look for the perfect play. It was Marty’s hammering it right away. Kale’s hammering it right away. Max’s hammering it right away. And then we got one and then they just kept doing it. Oolie, same thing. Everyone wanted to shoot the puck tonight, you know. Um, and we’ve got some really good shooters up there and sure teams are going to put pressure on you and try to take them away, but it doesn’t have to be the perfect shot all the time. You know, I think we can learn a lot just from that today and and they’ve been like sticking with it. The meetings have been good. The discussion’s been good between the players. It’s knew it was going to come at some point. Good night to get a bunch. Bailey and Cory, guy you already mentioned, Victor Olivesson gets on the board with a hat-tick. It seems like some of the chances that he’s been taking so far this season just maybe haven’t gone his way. Gets on the board a couple times. Just what are your thoughts on him tonight? Good night. Again, I mean this is, you know, a lot of the reason why we got him. He’s an elite shooter and you look at those goals he scored tonight and they’re great shots. No wasting any time and I mean he can unload it and it’s a deceptive shot. U I’ve liked the rest of his game though. Like his detail to his game has been really good. I think the pace on of his game on most nights he’s shown some explosiveness and helped create some good chances and you know sometimes they go in for you sometimes they don’t. But then like tonight just kind of the way the power play was going and some of the opportunities uh that his line’s been getting five on five, you know, he get gets rewarded tonight like like making that change with um Colton and Landy last game helped both lines last game. We talked about um you know Colton going up and helping the Nelson line, but Landy was that line was really good for us late in the New Jersey game, the Drury line. And then tonight they had a really good night again. So, we liked liked a couple of things that those guys have been doing. Cory, then Eric, is there was there anything you thought that changed when it was 54 that settled things down or just, you know, the you know, it was it would look like it was turning into a firewagon thing and just, you know, what happened after that? Well, I like like our commitment to check and do the right things within the structure of our game away from the puck in the third period. It was looking really good and then we gave up another handful of big chances, too. Um, I don’t know. Like it it’s a commitment. It’s not getting comfortable. You know, it’s the first time this year we’ve had a really big lead. Um, seemed like maybe was going to go easy for us and but they’re a dangerous team, right? Like they even though we made mistakes, they made some plays, right? And you know, like they’re they were different, you know, like we have the turnover burns, they score. We have a bad pinch by Manson. They come down, they score. Then we got a lazy back check. So, it’s a it wasn’t one guy or one thing. It’s just things you have to be sharper on on a nightly basis to win in this league if you’re not going to score eight every night. Um, so we’ll just review it and look at it, learn from it, and move on. Eric Ryan, the Carolina game, I think it was the one where you guys were 0 for seven on the PP before that late goal. Yeah. This one kind of felt like the complete like the anti that game. It was like the first PP was a goal. You got five on three, took advantage. It was 54, you scored. Like is that confidence? Like is that just like what how do you describe that in a stretch? Yeah. Well, I mean, the other team has something to say about it too, right? You have to handle what you control. You got to be sharp. Your puck movement’s got to be good. You know, everyone’s got to kind of have the same mentality. Like I talked about the shooting mentality even on the five on three like everyone you know K we have three really good shooting looks before Max scores right like the save he made on Kale coming across was outstanding and so I don’t know it just seemed like we were feeling it a little bit and that we wanted to shoot it and everyone wanted to score and part of that you have to have that mentality you know and um so I think part you know the group just comes in with really good focus really good intentions and didn’t stray away from it. We’re going to go over here to Evan then. John, Jackan found his way in the lineup these last two games. I know you liked him in camp. He broke the team out of camp. Like what have you seen that maybe he was being a good figure? I mean, he’s I mean, he’s played pretty good for us all through camp, all through exhibition in both these games, you know. Um, so we want to keep him playing with the Eagles and us. And we also like what Solovia has been doing as well. Different guys, different game. Um, so a smaller puck moving team, you know, last couple Jersey and and that’s one of Jack’s strengths. You know, he’s a good defender and he’s a good puck mover. He gets involved. You see him get involved in the one goal tonight. Um, and he does it on the regular. So depending on who we’re playing and how guys are playing and how we want to sort of structure our back end, he’ll see some time with us this year. John, go ahead. When it becomes kind of a late night SEC football game, both teams are are just lighting up the scoreboard against a potent team. You just just have to go with it and just keep going. Is that kind of mentality you have to have? Well, we talked about cleaning up some of the things defensively after the first even. Like I thought we were standing around a bit like I said so I wanted us to get more assertive with our checking game. We did that in the second then made some bad decisions and like it’s you know games throughout the course of the year they’re going to be different and different challenges. You some nights it’ll feel like you can’t create a scoring chance and you’re you’re defending real well and it’s one- nothing and and then other games it’s going in. every chance a team gets or going in and um both teams were making mistakes, both teams were making plays and you’re just trying to get your team focused on the right things cuz I felt like the offensive side of it tonight was going to take care of itself. We just needed to be better than they were on the checking side of it and eventually we got there and were able to get a win. It wasn’t certainly wasn’t perfect. There’s a lot more in that game than probably any other game that I’d want to clean up like from the structure of our game, but there was also a lot of nice playmaking. So, we got to still find the balance in it. Last two. Megan Colleenov gets his first NHL goal and draws a penalty. I was curious what it was about his night that made it so effective. Best game he’s played for sure. Um, the whole line was good. So I I think that you they all looked fantastic’s game and they’ve been you know Hack had a meeting with them this morning actually because they’ve been really good when they get in the offensive zone they’re just not getting there very much right so they spend too much time defending and on their own half of the rank and then changing and so they talked about some specific things that they could do get a little bit more connected as a group you know being in the same area with all three guys um they had a good meeting. They felt good about coming out of that um and they went out and backed it up on the ice. So, but I think you get all three guys playing well on the same night and it can look like that. That’s a repeatable game from all three of those guys. I think was what can you say about Scott Wedgwood just going through that game and having that four minutes of kind of chaos and then, you know, just pulling together and keeping him stay in that game? Yep. It’s same kind of thing as our team, right? He’s going through it the the same as the rest of our team. You got to refocus. You got to understand that, hey, you’re in a good spot. You’re you’re making a lot of plays and and you’re um you haven’t been perfect defensively. Um his job, I guess, at that point, you know, for a while there, it looked like he just needed to make one more save than their guy. Um so, you got he just refocused and you know, again, really good third period. made some big saves in the third as well, you know. So, um, good veteran presence back there gets the job done for us. Thanks, sir. Thank you. [Music] I just

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