any night, let alone third game in four days, just feel like it was not there tonight?

Yeah, we didn't have it tonight.

And they did. I thought they came out and played really, really well. They snapped the puck around well. They were skiing. We weren't skating. We were kind of, you know, we just had too many times we were just kind of standing still with and without the puck. And so then you're in grind. And I thought we did a decent job, honestly,

of, like, defending when we were in those spots, especially in our Ds, not necessarily the rush, but we just spent way too much time doing that. We just didn't have our skating legs. And I think it's just another learning process of how to kind of grind through that. You know, that's just part of the league. league and so we just got to continue to grow in those areas.

It seemed like you were looking at counterpunch maybe keep a guy hot. kind of grind through that. You know, that's just part of the league. And so we just got to continue to grow in those areas.

It seemed like you were looking at counterpunch, maybe keep a guy high and look for transition. Was that because you weren't moving your feet or was that strategy? Yeah, not strategy. I'm not a big believer in hoping, and I think in that scenario, you're hoping they don't score so you can get a counterpunch. We did get some card punch opportunities because of that, but we don't want to live that way.

We want to, we want to't want to live that way.

We want to, we want to limit the other team's chances and create our own chances. So that was just more because, honestly, I think because we weren't skied enough. Well, you switched up the second line at the first intermission. How do you think Martin stood up there? He was kind of like the rest of our team, probably just not skiing enough and not, you know,

create enough.

But it was our old team, so I certainly can't pin it on him.

It was just, as a group, I just didn't think we were really winning enough puck battles

because we weren't skating in the battle enough and because of that

we just we couldn't pretty much. Did you have a specific thought process though with changing

a little bit? I just didn't think we had it. I wanted to see how that line would go and in the end it

wasn't you know it didn't make it markedly better or worse it was just kind of the same and didn't give us

maybe some of the spark I'd hoped sometimes you'd make a change and you're hoping for a little bit of spark and didn't really give us that. But that's all right. That's the way it goes. You know, I thought for the most part, you know, that Bernard's line was the one that was creating some. We just need to make sure, you know, as a group that we're just skating way better, which we have, you know, for most

of the part here. We just didn't have it tonight. Penalty kill hasn't been as strong since the

trades, which is probably to be expected of. How have you assessed that, how would you assess

how the young players kind of transition into bigger roles in that situation? Need reps. You know,

you need reps. Like penalty kill is one of those things where there's just so many different nuances that happen reps. You know, you need reps. Like penalty kills one of those things

where there's just so many different nuances that happen. And, you know, we certainly have our

structure, but you have to, I don't know any way to learn it without going through it. And so

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