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Brind'Amour: It's one of those games we will look back on for a long time
Rod Brind'Amour speaks to the media after a 5-3 win over the Islanders in game 2.
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Rod Brind'Amour speaks to the media after a 5-3 win over the Islanders in game 2.
All right, we'll take questions for Rod. Just please wait for the microphone. Go ahead, Corey Rod. You talked plenty about making moments. Is this uh right near the top for you as far as what you guys did tonight? It was a special night for sure. Um Like you said, it's one of those games that we'll probably look back on for a long time and just a special uh game overall, especially the way it unfolded. So, yeah, it's pretty special, Rob would, would you talk a little bit about just the wear down effect? It was more than 100 shot attempts and that's a goaltender getting set that's blocked shots. That's defenseman turning. So how much did you think that might be playing a role in whether we come back? Um You know, listen, they got, they got ahead and I'm sure they just thought that, you know, should have been enough and um second period to me, we, you know, nothing was going in and we had a, I know, I don't know, a couple of goalposts for sure. And there was a lot of, we were doing a lot of really good things, but just wasn't and we weren't getting anything. Um So that, that, to me is the what I like most about the game, it was just our guys just, they just kept playing. Um And obviously it worked out that doesn't happen every when you're down three. It's just, you know, once in a lifetime type game. But, uh, I, I'm proud of the way they just kept playing Coach Rod after come from behind victory like that, the emotions of it at the very end of the game. Just, what's your message that you have to, your team when you enter the locker room? Is there a certain guy? You pull to the sun and say, you know, thanks for getting it going tonight. Um It's a good point. I mean, I think I, I can't really pinpoint one guy. I mean, there was a bunch of guys that played really well. Jarvie was phenomenal. Special was pheno. I mean, I get to keep going with C bass, Jorda Martin. I mean, everybody was just on it. Um, you know, we gave them a couple. It wasn't, you know, how we'd like to start, that's for sure how long we had to get start. It was just, there was a couple of plays and there were, we, uh didn't execute and they did. And, but again, the story is just that we kept going and that's what I love about this group because he watched them all year and really for a long time. And that's, they, they never, they don't stop how vital was it just to get that first goal just to kind of get that first one off the board. Well, it gives you hope. Right. It gives you a chance. Um, we went in that period down two and, you know, they got the, the, but we were down just to, so it wasn't like a total disaster of a period and guys felt good about how they were playing and I mean, the key is getting that second one, you know, get close and give yourself a chance and, and that's basically what happened. Marty mentioned that Kuznetsov and some, some of the other sort of older guys were kind of talking through that, you know, on the bench through a sequence. Could you hear that kind of conversation among the players about sticking to it? And for you as a coach and as a former captain, like, do you feed off that too when you hear your guys talking like that, that's when, you know, you got, you know, we know, we know we have a good group and uh I mean, I'm always harping on them but it, it certainly helps when they're getting the message and they're the ones doing it. So I think there's a pretty good understanding in here, uh the way we wanna play and especially when you hear the new guys that have just come in, they're, they're jumping on it. That's uh that's what you wanna hear. Rod. Can you tell us uh an update on, on Pat? Yeah, that's not looking good. Um He's gonna go get looked at tomorrow. So that's the, the big negative of, of tonight, for sure. All right, thanks Rob. I need to get one more. Go ahead one more. Yeah, so all before his goal had two shots, all series on that you could see the emotion that he had after. Is that just a big time player being a big time player? Yeah, he was good tonight though. I think he had two goalposts too and he was around it all night. So, you know, you know, he's gonna get his goals and his points, but it's his overall game. That was I thought really special. All right, thanks. Right. Thanks everyone.