Hurricanes
Rod Brind'Amour: "We know what we have to do to win"
Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour speaks to the media after the team's double overtime loss to the New York Rangers on Tuesday.
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Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour speaks to the media after the team's double overtime loss to the New York Rangers on Tuesday.
Is there questions for Rod, please wait for a microphone. Rod and obviously special teams is one thing, but the five on five game through 4.5 periods and you had to feel like that's the way you had to play to win. I thought we played really well in that department for sure. Both games I thought we were pretty good in that department tonight. Maybe even better than the other night had our opportunities. Rod with, with the depth you have this year. Was it hard to go down to three lines? Especially as the game wears on? Yeah, it's not ideal, but they're kind of doing the same thing. It's, it's, you know, um I thought the flow was good and our guys looked fresh. So, um, that really wasn't a concern, you know, as it was, this period was that last period was starting to go. I was gonna have to start using everyone, I could tell, but I, I really like the five on five game. So, and they weren't, they didn't look tired, I guess. And, and then as for the special teams, I mean, obviously that's got to get better. What is there any on the power plan? Are there any adjustments that you see, you can make? Now, we, we, we, we got to definitely be sharper and we got to get in the inside. We're on the outside and, you know, that's just not how we do it anyway. So it's, uh, got to get back to doing it. We, the way we, we know how to, and how important was it to see Jake kind of get going with like a really good tip and then a sniper's goal that, that kind of, we've been waiting to see that. I mean, they were good tonight that, yeah, I mean, we're, if we're gonna, you know, come back in the series, we're gonna need those guys on the score sheet. I know it didn't go the way you wanted two years ago. But can you at least take that series where they shifted back and forth with the home teams and try to use that? You always say those things, but at the end of the day, we know what we have to do to win. So we're going to have to just find a way to do that and you can draw on anything you want. But at the end of the day, the guys, they know they believe in there and I know they're the ones playing the game, but I think they understand what we got to do and I think they know that they feel capable of it. When, when you run into a hard goalie, they were talking about the margins being so fine. Do you get a sense that maybe the margins are being fine with your shooters too? Trying to be too precise? No, no. I mean, listen, we know he's a great goal. He made a lot of good saves tonight. Um, but the answer to that, no, I mean, you're just trying to get opportunities and, you know, you know, when you get him, you obviously trying to bear down, but you're not thinking, oh, he's this good goalie. I gotta do something different. No.