The Tampa Bay Lightning's rookie, Matt Tomkins, expressed his joy at earning his first NHL win at the age of 29 in Montreal. The Lightning's head coach, Jon Cooper, highlighted the team's disappointment with turnovers and lack of execution, leading to lost momentum. The team ended their four-game road trip with 5 out of 8 points. The Nashville Predators struggled on their road trip, losing 4 out of 5 games and conceding 21 goals. The team expressed the need to improve and focus on minimizing turnovers and defensive play.
Pascal Vincent says #CBJ mistakes at bad times were the undoing for the Jackets tonight: "It's just momentum shifts, but it's created by us. Small mistakes that become big momentum changes during the game. We gotta get away from that. We have to make sure we stick to the plan.… https://t.co/p9bDEnDu16
Final numbers on the Preds' 5 game road trip: 1-4-0 14 goals for 21 goals against PK went 12 of 17 (70%) PP went 3 for 20 (15%) Very little to fly home excited about.
#Preds going to fall to 1-4-0 on the road trip and 5-8-0 overall. They’ve got five in a row and eight of their next nine at home to close out the month of November. They need to start collecting some points here or that hole is gonna get pretty deep.
Jon Cooper on the loss: "We had the momentum in this game clearly in the first 10 or 12 minutes, whatever it was, and we gave the momentum back with our self inflicted errors. Plain and simple. Egregious turnovers and lack of execution and, in the end, we just gave them freebies… https://t.co/m0tLDLtySx
"A complete lack of judgement." Brock Faber acted like a captain in being accountable, but rookie has been least of #mnwild problems. Our updated takeaways from 4-1 loss, from another slow start to a quiet Kaprizov, Bogosian debut + sharp Fleury https://t.co/IUT0g86adt
Cirelli: "We've just got to be better. It's little things that we need to clean up and obviously the big one is turnovers. If we limit those, a lot of scoring chances go away. That and just being better in our own zone. Maybe breaking out the puck a little bit cleaner. That's on… https://t.co/M4FAB7bSE7
Cirelli on turnovers: "In here as a group, we know we've got to be better & we know we can't be turning the puck over. You see what happens off turnovers. The other team comes at you and they capitalize on their chances. That's on us and we've got to be better in that regard."
Sergachev on the number of goals the #Bolts are allowing: "Seems like a lot. Obviously, it's not great. We can't go back and change anything. Now we just go tomorrow and work and get better at it. Next game, go and work, not hope. Work over hope I guess."
Mikhail Sergachev on the turnovers: "Breaks happen in the game but, when it is on a consistent basis like that, we just got to sharpen up a little bit and wake up a little bit and stop doing that"
Sergachev on what he thought of the #Bolts pushback: "We didn't really have one in the second. We kind of pushed, but we didn't shoot the puck. We created chances, but we didn't shoot. That was our problem, I think."
Cooper: "Just egregious turnovers, lack of execution. In the end, we just gave them freebies. This is a tough league to win in if you're just going to continue to do that. Give them credit, now they come out and have to protect the lead. If there was one disappointing part to the… https://t.co/DKSaA35zx5
Anthony Cirelli on the turnovers: "I think, in here as a group, we know we have to be better and we know we can't be turning the puck over. You see what happens off of turnovers. The other team comes at you and they capitalize on their chances so that's on us and we got to better… https://t.co/t6mjKvB94m
Cirelli on the turnovers: "I think, in here as a group, we know we have to be better and we know we can't be turning the puck over. You see what happens off of turnovers. The other team comes at you and they capitalize on their chances so that's on us and we got to better in that… https://t.co/GxBcdyScot
Cooper: "We had the momentum in this game, clearly, in the first 10 or 12 minutes, whatever it was. And we gave the momentum back with our self-inflicted errors, plain and simple."
Sergachev on high number of goals #GoBolts have allowed: “Obviously it's not great. We can’t really go back and change anything now. We can just go tomorrow work and get better at it and next game, work and not hope. Work over hope I guess.”
The #Preds are well on their way in this game to making this a very poor road trip.
This is roughhhhh. Preds just need this road trip to end.
Victor Hedman on the road trip: "We got five out of six points against our division. That's very good. Obviously a bitter, sour taste in our mouth after the game against Toronto, but we bounced back well against Montreal. I think we played a more solid game. We took too many… https://t.co/6nxCFPSfYS
Cooper on the road trip: "I always say this. You go on the road and you come back with more points than games played, which we did, I think it's a successful trip. On the flip side, we had the lead in the third period in all four games and only came away with five of eight… https://t.co/zX486qwUDz
"You just can't make egregious mistakes... we made some really, really mind-boggling plays with the puck." Spencer Carbery didn't hold back after the Capitals' loss to Florida, citing poor decision-making, Kuznetsov's positioning and more: https://t.co/2eUAejfi2y
Carbery on the Capitals’ overturned goals: “We’re gonna start working on drills on staying onside and staying away from the goalie. I don’t put much into those… we got other things to worry about.”
Carbery on the OT goal: “Kuzy out of position. He chased down ice. If you’re gonna chase down ice, you just can’t get beat and he got beat.” #Caps
Carbery on the OT loss: “I thought the second and third periods were just okay. We made some egregious mistakes with the puck that, against a team like them, you just can’t make. Especially against their best people who are all buzzing around tonight.” #Caps
Carbery said Capitals made “egregious mistakes,” “mind-boggling” mistakes that led to the loss to Florida.
Most of the third periods you're talking about, we had leads [...] You can't be breaking out, chipping in, forechecking, and keeping teams in their own zone when you take penalties, so that's part of it." #Isles Clutterbuck had more to say: https://t.co/4RyaYfIC9Y
"If we're being realistic and honest, [our record] should be better. So we're doing something we need to focus on and clean up for sure." Spoke with a few #Isles on d-zone structure, which Lambert focused on, retreating in the 3rd, & penalty issue ⤵️ https://t.co/4RyaYfIC9Y
"If we're being realistic and honest, (our record) should be better. So we're doing something we need to focus on and clean up for sure." Spoke with a few #Isles on d-zone structure, which Lambert focused on, retreating in the 3rd, & penalty issue ⤵️ https://t.co/4RyaYfIC9Y
Had long discussions with a few #Isles after practice about structure, aggressiveness, the penalties, the retreating in the third period...everything that's led to the blown leads, and, ultimately, the throwing away of points. Will have that for you later this afternoon.
For Lightning rookie Matt Tomkins, earning his first NHL win at age 29 in Montreal is ‘special’ ⤵️ https://t.co/2ilDXAnfAy
"You talk about responses and there's many of them during an 82-game year, but this was certainly one." As Nikita Kucherov continues to roll, the #Bolts ended the four-game road trip with 5 of 8 points. More on the win & a special night for Matt Tomkins. https://t.co/Qw2VYYrXU4