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Kuznetsov: They didn't bring me here to be the funny guy
Evgeny Kuznetsov talks about scoring his first goal as a Cane after a 4-0 win over the Florida Panthers.
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Evgeny Kuznetsov talks about scoring his first goal as a Cane after a 4-0 win over the Florida Panthers.
The points don't matter, they'll come, but the wins are important, but it seemed like it felt pretty good, particularly on the goal for you to get one to go. I understand why I'm here and why this team bring me. So not just to be the funny guy and smile around, they, they need us to perform and they need us to eventually get the points and go so we can help the team and, and, you know, I felt like, uh today was the day that we, we had to step up and it was a dry three games for me. So it was, it was very important to not only get the goal and assist to, to get the games in nature go and then I thought, uh you know, the, the, the first period there was not a lot there and then 2nd and 3rd, we really, we really missed that different style of game and, and I'm, I'm, I had the fun tonight and I hope that uh everybody in the building had the fun. Can you explain the way your lines come together so quickly? I have no idea. To be honest with you. Seriously, I'm, I'm not lying. I have no idea. We, we do not talk about hockey and, uh, that sometimes it's good, you know, we can, we can learn off each other and, and just play. We, we know the system system and, and we go inside of the system. We're good enough to understand when we have to put the park deep when we can make the place. And we, we, we played a few thousands of games, a few hundreds of games and, and we know when is the time to make plays? When is the time to, to put the park deep in work? When was the last time you did a long time ago? Long time? Yeah. Uh, I, I didn't want to do it but, uh, I, I felt like the defense would like it probably on your goal. Were you waiting out the, well, were you waiting out your defender or were you looking for an opening on be? I wanted to pass the n on the back door and the first Jensen then n and I heard that the people from the beach screaming, shoot, shoot, shoot and, and, uh, you know, it was a, it was a good, good pass by Shirley and then, uh, you know, I just decided the shot for some reason. Were you surprised to have that much time? You don't, you don't get that much time and I knew it was at that type of play when you know, II, I was in the middle and I knew I'm the defenseman gonna kind of block the shot and stuff like that. I, I knew that nobody coming from behind. So, what's it been like coming in to against high caliber playoff teams like the Rangers and Florida Panthers as well in your early games here? Yeah, I mean, those two teams, it's a tough teams and, uh, and confidences. Right. And, well, I feel like now there is no bad teams in the league anymore and even if you look at the teams that lost in the standings, they, they still work hard. They compete a lot of skill. So these days you, you have to treat every game like a game seven and that's, that's the mentality. I feel like I'm going, is there a relief?