Hurricanes
Rod Brind'Amour: For two periods they were the better team, no question.
Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour spoke to the media following a 2-1 OT win vs. New York. Brind'Amour said it feels good to say you 'snuck one out'.
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Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour spoke to the media following a 2-1 OT win vs. New York. Brind'Amour said it feels good to say you 'snuck one out'.
not really, no, but we'll take the win, that's for sure. You guys seem to switch a flip from the second to the third and how does that happen? Hmm. Well, I thought we obviously we raised the level of our game and the intensity and we'll play a little more desperation, which is what we needed. We were lacking a little of that for two periods and you know, obviously it doesn't always work out, but we had a real good third period obviously and that got us back in the game and then obviously carried over and over time. You give them a lot of credit. They played a really good game for two periods. They were the better team. No question. Um, especially the first period, first period, we were just not there and you know, ransom made a couple of real big saves. You make those changes, right? Obviously we know what prompted them. That's the way you guys were playing through two periods. But do you think it was the changes or was it a sense of desperation that you guys know it was not to change? And I think it's just the way the attitude, the way we played that period when you're down, you have to up your game. And you know, that's that's kind of what happened. Um you know, kudos to our guys. I mean, they They gotta go on. I mean, it certainly was a good 3rd period. Well, obviously we're not gonna get away with that. I'm not playing two periods expect to win a game, especially this time of year against that team. Are you thinking we're getting closer? Yeah, I don't know. You're just kind of like maybe we're getting what we deserve here, you know, because they had a couple of good ones too and then, you know, but I just I like the fact that we just kept coming. We you know, we didn't didn't really change too much in the third um threw everything at him and we got, you know, like I said, we were fortunate to get that tire and you know, obviously walk away here with the wind. two guys in Sebastian we're spending coming into tonight but that you can feel pretty, Yeah, that's that's the fallback. You always know those guys have the history, you know, they feel good together. Um So it's not, you know, it's not rocket science. You know, putting those guys together and it's no different than the last series when teams are putting their best players together. I mean it's it's you know, you're trying to create a little different flow to your group, that's all you're doing and obviously tonight it worked. Um You know, you never know, it doesn't always work. What's you got it, you've seen your sheriff infrequent scores for big playoff goals. Where does this one rank? Uh Yeah, good, good. I mean over the years I remember Nick Marlene was always a big one and over that's what's great about this game, you know, is you just don't know who's gonna be the guy and and then now he's, you know, he's got that moment forever, right? I just I think that's what makes it special, Hockey's you count everyone, you know, and but it's nice that other guys that you don't talk about it all the time or you you know, you can it can be a part of that and feel these, you know, special moments. Ian was actually saying that you guys are good. The team itself is good at checking itself in game to kind of assess and be honest. Have you found that with this group? They know we were what we were not doing right there on the bench talking about it. Um But again, I think it was to me it was more maybe what new york was doing, I mean, they were on it and they were playing hard and um you know, forcing us to kind of get away from what we were doing and what we need to do. So like I said, they played a good game, it went our way. Um But yeah, I think all good teams, coach doesn't need to tell them they're not doing things right, they know 12, 15 to steal games well, you gotta I mean, we've seen enough of it against us over the years, where were the better team and walk away going what just happened. So it feels pretty good to be on this side of it sometimes, where, you know, you can say, hey, we're not going out roger. He says to my quickly, the teams meet, the team's sitting back. Yeah, it happens a lot. I think sometimes, as we know, I mean, it can happen any time, but it seems to either a lot of times happen quick or not at all until later. So I think they had a couple of little looks and then obviously we, we had that one good shift that that was a really good shift that kind of led to the goal. All right, thanks. Mhm.