Hurricanes
Jordan Staal: "Special teams got to be better"
Carolina Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal discusses the team's special team play and what adjustments need to be made before Game 4 vs. the Rangers.
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Carolina Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal discusses the team's special team play and what adjustments need to be made before Game 4 vs. the Rangers.
J I guess we've, we've been here before with these, these one goal losses, these tight losses and just not being able to, to get over the hump. Is there anything that you see that's, you know, a, you know, something that, that's similar in these losses? Something you guys can't, can't get to, to get over the hump here. No, I mean, it's a little bit of a broken record, obviously. I think our special teams getting better, our gotta sneak in a couple of goals or a goal or two. It just gonna get us in a better position to, to end games. And, um, yeah, um, 55 games. It's been, it's been good. Um, has it been great? Have we completely buried teams? No, they're a good team too. But, um, I think, um, there's a few few things on the special team side I think we can get better at and, um, we'll, we'll start with, uh, getting better at tomorrow and we'll find a way to win, win a game. How do you make sense of being down? 03, despite how dominant at times you guys have been in this game and in the series. Yeah, it's, it's hockey, I mean, um, they, they win games different way than we do and, um, we still have to find a way to keep the buck out of our net and, and score more goals than they do. And they've done a good job of, uh, scoring on their opportunities and they've got some special players that we've got to stop and, um, you know, and we got a goaltender that we gotta find a way to beat. So that's, um that's their game plan. It's working for them, obviously. Um And our game plan has got to change a little bit and get better. Uh If we're gonna wanna at least get a game in. So what do you attribute the breakdowns you guys have of the team in the second period as opposed to how well you guys played in the first period and how do you correct it? Yeah. Um Well, I mean, the shorthand goal wasn't great, obviously, you don't want to give that up. Um That hurts. So, um power plays, I'm not on it, but it's got to be better. I'm sure if you ask everyone on there would agree with it. So, um you know, giving up a goal and, and not scoring is, is never great. So it's not a good recipe. So, uh that was the biggest thing in the second period and um they really nice goal they don't want, I mean, that was quite impressive goal. Um, and then we found a way to battle back in the game and, um, they had a quick one to end the game but, um, you know, not much how good to try to flush everything out and, you know, and know the seasons on the line would have to still go day by day. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's, that's our whole lives going day by day here. Um, and every, every hockey player. So, um we have tomorrow, we're excited about tomorrow. We're excited about getting better and, and finding ways to beat this team. And, um, you know, it's, uh it's gonna be a new day tomorrow. It's gonna hurt tonight. Um I won't get much sleep but um we'll have a new day tomorrow and we'll find a way to win one game. It's, it's, it's been our model here for a long, long time. So we'll start with that Jordan. Is that the message to the group right here? Absolutely. Um It's, uh it's, it's taking it day by day, one day at a time. And um obviously, uh you don't see a whole lot of comebacks from three, but um why not now? And we'll, we'll start with one tough situation for Pyotr to have to step in after not playing for almost a month. Yeah, great. Um Yeah, KCI played great. Um Can't really uh uh say much other than that. And, um you know, it was good to see the kid, uh, uh, play a game.