Boone Jenner, Sean Monahan & Head Coach Dean Evason, Blue Jackets @ Oilers | Postgame Media

Boone Jenner, Sean Monahan & Head Coach Dean Evason, Blue Jackets @ Oilers | Postgame Media

when you guys played your butts off tonight. Is it hard to process the sequence of events of how that one got away? Yeah, definitely. Um it’s a tough one when you put in that many good minutes and um you know, it’s just an a crazy bounce at the end that they get a tie and go with. I mean, um, like I said, I think we’re in complete control of the game. Um, right from the start and, um, you know, it’s tough to swallow when when that happens and then they get the overtime winner, but um, it’s just the way things kind of go and right now is, you know, bounce like that and it ends up in our net. It’s um, it’s tough, but we got to get back at it tomorrow. Yeah, it’s one of those things where can’t even ask about protecting a third period lead because it felt like you guys did probably what you wanted to do in that third period. It’s just a crazy bounce. Does that make it harder to kind of wrap your mind around how it all developed? Yeah, I mean like like I said, that’s the thing. It’s um we’re doing exactly what we need to be doing and um Ollie gets a stick in the passing lane to disrupt the play. Great stick and it the flex off and goes, you know, behind the bars. So, um it happens. I mean, you know, it’s um we just get it back at it. Like I said, I think we liked a lot of our game and even we’re in the lead a lot of the things we were doing. So, um, no, it’s, uh, shouldn’t discourage us. We should, um, you know, build off tonight’s effort, I guess. See, as a, as a veteran, is that the message? Just try to bring this type of game to tomorrow night and get right back at it and try to play it just the way you played tonight for the most part. Well, I’ll put it this way. I think if we play like we did tonight, we’re going to win more than we lose. Um, and you know, it’s one of our more complete games. And, um, I know it’s crazy when you lose in overtime, but um, it really was. and you know they get a couple breaks and um you know that’s we don’t want to be you know here with one point obviously too but like I said if we keep going with that shift after shift like we were tonight um we’re going to like the results more times than not just on that power play late you guys were doing a good job kind of moving the puck and not forcing anything and then it’s just a you know kind of force a shot and they come back the other way can you kind of learn from that situation or do something different in that situation or just one of those Yeah, I mean it’s just one of those things. Obviously, we we have control and we want to, you know, kill the clock or whatnot. And um you know, we got control and even when it comes back in our zone, we’re we’re fine. And um you know, just takes a bounce on the boards. Always got a great stick, but it finds a way in the back of the net. I mean, there’s not much else to say on it. such a weird game and that you guys probably have to like so much about the way you play tonight and yet still don’t get the result. How how hard is it to kind of comprehend how it developed there at the end? Yeah, I mean I thought uh I thought we worked hard tonight and did a lot of good things. Um losing sucked so that uh you feel the emotion of the loss, but uh no, we did a lot of good things and we play tomorrow and we got to be ready to go right away. Is it just all about that? Just trying to take a lot of what you guys did tonight and just take it into tomorrow and get right back out there. Yeah, I think so. It’s uh I mean I thought we played well. I mean doing a lot of the right things that uh we want to do as a team and I mean the more we do that the more success we’re going to have. So we got to we got to stick to that. Uh we heard that some of you guys weren’t feeling well to this morning. I guess what does that say about the the gutty effort you guys put in today when when some guys weren’t feeling 100%. Yeah. I mean this is uh there’s this is a league where there’s no excuses. So it uh doesn’t matter if you’re feeling good or hurt or whatever it may be. you got to find ways to to do your job and uh that’s part of being uh being in the NHL. Um when you have a team like this, they have dynamic player obviously and Conor McDavid, he seems to kind of you kind of sparked them. How do you kind of combat that or can you combat that when when you guys are in control of the game? Yeah. No, you try and stay in front of him and uh I mean frustrate him because I mean he wants the puck. He wants the puck with speed and obviously everyone knows he can make plays when he has it. So, it uh it’s getting in front of him, frustrating him, and thought at times we were doing that tonight, but uh yeah, I mean, he had a few shifts where where he made us pick. Dean, we were talking a lot upstairs about the team defense in the first two periods. Where did this one get away from you? Wow, we caught a few really bad breaks. I mean, come on. Like, that puck has no business going in. Um, you know, they’re passing a puck across the seam. we go stick on puck and it ends up in our net. Um, you know, I mean, did we make some mistakes? Yeah. But, um, you know, the way the way that we played, it’s a step in the right direction. Um, yeah. Are we are we bitter? We didn’t get a win for sure. Um, but we we we have to be able to to, you know, learn from it. And obviously, we’ve had some frustrating stuff here in this last, you know, three games. And when you get on losing streaks, you need something positive to happen. And there was some positivity tonight. It could have been easily turned. But we think it’s a step in the right direction. What did you see on the play in overtime? Well, we got a slow change is what the biggest thing is is that we should have got out there, but um you know uh that’s about it. I mean they obviously you know again that’s what we saw. We just saw that slow change. didn’t get out there quick enough to to uh get on the right side of them. Um but um you know again you know we we we we made some mistakes. I mean certainly but um you know we’ll we’ll we’ll take stuff good from this game. You spoke this morning about our guys needing to be motivated. You said that earlier today. A lot of talk about Edmonton. What did you see as far as the level of urgency overall from your team? Oh, I thought I thought our our compete, our level of, as I say, urgency, our our willingness, our desperation to compete, to battle um was was great. Um so was theirs, right? It was it was a good hockey game, but again, majority of the play we think um we had in our direction. So, um we’ll move forward off of this one. Guys have had a number of losses this year where you felt like you probably played pretty good hockey. Tonight would qualify there as well. How do you do? Is that the message of the team is just keep going. It’s going to turn around here some point if you just keep playing the way you’re playing. Yeah, we don’t talk a lot after games. But yeah, we did chat this after this game that uh that you got to get your heads up and we play again tomorrow, right? Um so, you know, this game’s gone. We’ll learn from some stuff obviously um some of those mistakes I just mentioned. Um but we competed our asses off and that’s what we want from the from the guys and we did that tonight. We’ll do it again tomorrow. Play power play. Would you like to been more bit more conservative on that power play kind of solos possession a little more than wouldn’t have liked to to shoot right and and and get blocked. I mean that um but you know you know I think it’s Z that did it and he doesn’t make too many mistakes and yeah for us we should have the the thought process was to hang on to pucks until until they pressured and then we were going to you know try to slip one in once they start running around a bit to try to get it off us. But you know it happens. a, you know, it’s a it’s a fast game. Um, you know, they’re in the battle. He made the decision. Unfortunately, they got blocked and got back down to our end and and now, you know, two very special players get on the ice and they pressured us. Um, like I said, the break was was not a good one for us obviously and crossbaring it down, but um but yeah, we we probably should have handled ourselves a little better in that that situation.

Boone Jenner, Sean Monahan and Head Coach Dean Evason speak to the media postgame in Edmonton.

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