Hurricanes defenseman Brady Skjei discusses the team's play in the third period against the Islanders as the team advances to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Little bit of deja vu there from the game earlier in the series with the two quick goals and a fortuitous bounce there to kind of get you guys back in the back in control. Yeah, yeah, definitely some fortuitous bounces. But our strategy and what we always talk about is trying to get talks to the um obviously some crazy stuff can happen and that's what happened there and a couple of those goals. So, um I really proud of the guys and um it's a great job closing the series, the rim. Yeah, something hit Stan or something. Those are the pretty rare and it actually happened again, I think right after it, I don't know what's going on. But um yeah, that's one of those lucky bounces that went our way. What was the feeling on the bench? He got the penalty shot? I mean, we all thought he was going to score. I mean, we've seen that move against us and in the past, I don't know, he does an amazing job of waiting the goalie out and um once he went for that Poke Jack, he still right by himself. Uh That was a huge goal and a big moment in the game. What do you say about your guys ability to close games this series? I think you were 10 to 2 goal differential in overtime. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's huge. We don't really change the way we play it throughout the whole 60 minutes. We try to put it on them and, and, uh, get our four check going and, um, you try to stay aggressive and I think that's why that's how those numbers add up. We talked a lot about Freddie early in the series and kind of bailing you out a little bit. Do you guys feel like maybe a little bit after that kind of weird play where he falls over, maybe bail him out of it? Oh, I mean, yeah, it just, it just unfortunate. I mean, we wouldn't even be in that position at all if it wasn't for Freddie. So you can, it's just unfortunate catches the ice and he's been so good for us and he's going to continue to do that. It was huge. We definitely didn't want to get on that plane and head back to New York. So to get it done here was big and move on to the next one. It's going to be a really tough test.
