When you looked at this season at the start, did you expect to be in a spot where you are right now?

Out of the playoffs and not having it in the middle.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't know. I had no expectation one way or the other.

You know, I would say to you, I think it's a little unfortunate that, you know, these games have kind of gone this way the last couple because

honestly we've done tons of good things to build this in the right direction and you know

unfortunately this sours your taste but that doesn't in the end when we look back we'll

know that we have built a lot of building blocks to have us have success in the future

so that the thing you'll tell them at the end of the...

Yeah, I mean, you know, we'll talk about, we'll talk about number of things.

There's zero, you know, it's frustrating, so then you start, you know, again, it can really sour your view on things.

I think, I think this time of year it can be, it can fool you in either way, to be honest with, when you play great this time of year, it can fool you in either way to be honest really when you play great this time of year it can

fool you when you when you play poorly this time here sometimes a good feeling again I think we

built a lot of building blocks and we've built the foundation I think we've built the things we

wanted to in terms of culture and standard and last few games you know it's score-wise for sure really gotten away from us it was a weird game tonight like we did lots of good stuff lots good stuff and then boom it's internet and we made a crazy mistake I don't know where you know when those are hard to overcome and um but my message to them at the end of the year I mean we can talk about that at the end the year. We're going to focus and try to win a game against Sam Zam Zah.

It felt like the game was the power plays. It could have been a different one. Was the power play just, it felt destroying it, especially in that five and three, it didn't seem like it had exactly a plan or what it was part of it? Yeah, I don't disagree. agree that didn't, I mean there is a plan, but it didn't, it didn't totally look like that.

Now part of that plan is allowing Connor to move. And sometimes when you have movement, you know, it's an interesting thing. Like, you can be static and everybody kind of knows what they're doing. When you introduce movement, there has to be some patterns, but, but, you know, I didn't think we probably read off each other great. It's definitely a huge moment in the game.

We get that 5-on-3 score in that.

Maybe you get a chance scoring a 5-on-4, and then it's a whole different thing. It was, again, for me, it was a weird game. Like, that's structurally, we did good stuff. We defended well. Then all of a sudden, we just made this huge mistake out of nowhere. and you're not in, you know, huge, huge opportunities for them.

They're obviously team that you can't do that against.

You're referring to them. mistake out of nowhere and it's in your net in you know huge huge opportunities for them

they're obviously team that you can't do that against you're referring to that line

change but the huge of what I'm referring to it multiple things like you know we give up a

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