1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,360
Speaker 1: Thanks. Mike Layne did not mince any words following the

2
00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,960
Speaker 1: loss to the anaim Docks. Just take us through your

3
00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,840
Speaker 1: disappointments and your frustration with that four two loss.

4
00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,920
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I didn't think we were very good in

5
00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,840
Speaker 2: the first forty minutes. I thought we played better in

6
00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,840
Speaker 2: the last forty although you know, like I've talked about

7
00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,400
Speaker 2: in the last couple of weeks, the trend in the

8
00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,639
Speaker 2: league is when you get a lead, you tend to

9
00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,599
Speaker 2: sit back and protect it. I thought we did that

10
00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,800
Speaker 2: a little bit against the Islanders as well, which made

11
00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,840
Speaker 2: it difficult for them. Or you know, in the third period, Anna,

12
00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:31,680
Speaker 2: I'm sat back a little bit allowed us to get

13
00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,120
Speaker 2: a little bit of momentum going. But the first two

14
00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,800
Speaker 2: periods we weren't very good. Game's over, it's past history.

15
00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:39,840
Speaker 2: We've got to be better today.

16
00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,480
Speaker 1: You talked a little bit in the past about chasing

17
00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,640
Speaker 1: leads and chasing teams. Now six times in the last

18
00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,760
Speaker 1: seven you have faced either a two to nothing or

19
00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,879
Speaker 1: a two to one deficit. How can you get off

20
00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,400
Speaker 1: to a better start here tonight and limit those opportunities

21
00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:53,960
Speaker 1: from Jersey?

22
00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,840
Speaker 2: Just focus on getting pucks in behind their knee, making

23
00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,520
Speaker 2: their defense turn. We turned the puck over too many

24
00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,680
Speaker 2: times in the first five minutes against Anton, I'm and

25
00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,360
Speaker 2: when you do that, they transition back and you end

26
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,840
Speaker 2: up spending time in your own zone. Not a recipe for.

27
00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,200
Speaker 1: Success when you're trying to get off to better starts.

28
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,119
Speaker 1: As we've talked a lot about, is it a mentality

29
00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,600
Speaker 1: off the face off? Is it a you know, not

30
00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,679
Speaker 1: being ready for that opening push from other teams? What

31
00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,640
Speaker 1: can you point to as maybe a reason why Seattle's

32
00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,800
Speaker 1: not been able to get off to the type of

33
00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,399
Speaker 1: starts recently that you would like.

34
00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,039
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you can couple it with a few

35
00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,200
Speaker 2: different things. Four times are you know we've let the

36
00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,480
Speaker 2: first shot in so that doesn't help. You know, we

37
00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,520
Speaker 2: need to get some saves right off the hop and

38
00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,200
Speaker 2: you know, build some momentum from there. You know. But

39
00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,600
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, you know, we have

40
00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,720
Speaker 2: enough guys in this team, and enough better than guys

41
00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,880
Speaker 2: in this team that they know that the starts haven't

42
00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,280
Speaker 2: been good enough and we have to be better.

43
00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,000
Speaker 1: Probably my last negative question, I promise you here with

44
00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,360
Speaker 1: the short handed goals cracking them allowed in recent games,

45
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,559
Speaker 1: noticed about that on the power and play side of things.

46
00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,760
Speaker 1: Is it a breakdown, is it a lapse? Is it

47
00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,440
Speaker 1: something the other teams are doing. Is there something you

48
00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,520
Speaker 1: can point to as to why the Cracking have allowed

49
00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,920
Speaker 1: a handful of penalty urber I guess short handed goals

50
00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:13,920
Speaker 1: in recent games.

51
00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,400
Speaker 2: Well, it starts with battles. You know, in those situations,

52
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,320
Speaker 2: you're not going to win all the battles. Obviously, pentally

53
00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,240
Speaker 2: kill teams are going to click blocks out of the zone,

54
00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,720
Speaker 2: but we've lost some battles and then trying to win

55
00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,320
Speaker 2: those battles, we're getting trapped and you know they're they're

56
00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,360
Speaker 2: managing to get themselves in to advantageous situations, whether it

57
00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,240
Speaker 2: be two on one or a couple of breakaways. So

58
00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,880
Speaker 2: you know, we just have to be a lot better

59
00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,560
Speaker 2: in that area. You know, as far as scoring goals

60
00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,640
Speaker 2: in the power play, we've done very well since December first,

61
00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,480
Speaker 2: But it's these four shorthanded goals we've given up in

62
00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,360
Speaker 2: the last few games that seem to be the focus

63
00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,480
Speaker 2: of everyone, you included, and you know, we have to

64
00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,240
Speaker 2: eliminate those because other than that, we've had some huge

65
00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,280
Speaker 2: power pulay goals for us.

66
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,040
Speaker 1: My sincerius apologies, you've challenged the top nine forward group

67
00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,840
Speaker 1: to continue to be better, to pick up their offense.

68
00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,040
Speaker 1: And now we've seen in recent games the McCanns, the Schwartzes,

69
00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,840
Speaker 1: even the Duns in the back end, your best players

70
00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,440
Speaker 1: have been your best players offensively. What have you liked

71
00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,880
Speaker 1: about those top three forward groups that you've seen here recently.

72
00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,560
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I've liked spits and pieces of them.

73
00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,359
Speaker 2: I don't think that I've loved them as much as

74
00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,760
Speaker 2: you're saying that I should love them. You know, we

75
00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,360
Speaker 2: have to win those matchups, and I feel like our

76
00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,920
Speaker 2: top six forwards are getting out shot every night by

77
00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,000
Speaker 2: their top six forwards, you know. And if you look

78
00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,280
Speaker 2: at our plus minus, if you look at Chandler's plus

79
00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,240
Speaker 2: minus and Vince's plus minus, you know, some of those

80
00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,400
Speaker 2: are obviously empty net goals. But at the end of

81
00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,440
Speaker 2: the day, we've got to have more out of these guys.

82
00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,240
Speaker 1: You've got Jersey here tonight. You've seen them five games ago,

83
00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,040
Speaker 1: so they're fresh in your mind. What do you want

84
00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,200
Speaker 1: to see downe differently to night than what we saw

85
00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:01,760
Speaker 1: there the Rock?

86
00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,760
Speaker 2: Well, I thought the game itself was an interesting hockey game.

87
00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,920
Speaker 2: I thought, I think they had just come back from somewhere.

88
00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,440
Speaker 2: We were in New York, sitting in New York for

89
00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,240
Speaker 2: a couple of days, and I didn't think it was

90
00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,720
Speaker 2: an over the energetic hockey game. I thought it was

91
00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,960
Speaker 2: played pretty hard by both teams, but I thought there

92
00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,600
Speaker 2: was more. I just really felt like we left something

93
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,440
Speaker 2: on the table there, and you know, ended up losing

94
00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,640
Speaker 2: an overtime on a nice goal by Hesher. But you know,

95
00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,880
Speaker 2: I just I'd like to see us bring our a game,

96
00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,719
Speaker 2: that's all, to a man, bring our a game to

97
00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:36,640
Speaker 2: let's see what happens