“We Face Things As a Team” | Ukko Pekka Luukkonen After Shootout Win Over Oilers

“We Face Things As a Team” | Ukko Pekka Luukkonen After Shootout Win Over Oilers

Well what was the process like coming back into the room and then finding out you had to go back out there yeah I didn’t I didn’t make it all the way to the room you know I was Wai to go up for the third uh three stars there but um

You know it’s kind of um you know I I they probably made the right call on that and that’s that those are the roles and you kind of have to battle through that and you know in the end we got the two points so that’s all that matters

How do you get your concentration back because you think yeah all right we won so your mind goes to we won and now your mind has to go back to we’re still playing a hockey game here how do you get your concentration back so quickly

Uh I think it’s the same thing I’ve been talking about you know I’ve been playing a lot of games and kind of you’re in a you know good flow uh you know in a good role so you know um as I said there’s no no perfect time and uh anything like

That so kind of have to you know refocus and you know be be ready to play again so um I just said it is what it is and uh as long as we got the two points that’s all that matters it’s the first time you’ve dealt with it what’s it like

When Conor mcdavid’s coming down you saw that three or four times today yeah he’s he’s unbelievable player um you know kind of like it that he’s that good so I saw highlights before what he’s going to do in the shootout but um you know it’s it’s it’s it’s kind of fun

To play against you know he’s he’s you know so skillful and so so fast so you know it was great you know face him the first time and you know it was great to get the win how are you able to overcome the two nothing deficit they score

Short-handed it’s two nothing but you guys able to come back how were you guys as a team able to overcome that yeah we didn’t we didn’t start as we wanted um um you know that’s something you know kind of coming off the tra deadline and kind of maybe mentally it’s it’s been

You know not the not the perfect place to be as a team and you know uh kind of refocusing and after getting getting our feedback back under us after the first and you know kind of sticking with it uh was a big thing today and I think we we

Uh got a really good third and uh we we were I think going with a good you know good feeling to the overtime so you know I think that mattered a lot today what did you see on that last shoot out attempt by Newan Hopkins how do you want

To approach that um I don’t know I I just kind of tried to stick with it uh and you know you just used my size and I really didn’t know what what what he was going to do but you know usually they chew you know low Blocker in that

Situation and that’s what he did so you know it’s it’s you know it’s you against that guy and in the moment you just try to make the right read and um I did that in that that point and you know I think he it was a good try from him but um you

Know I at the right read on that Conor’s short break away I guess you got it with the right what you see on that play yeah it’s uh he was face or coming with a lot of speed and you know in the end if if if he takes it around me to

The back hand you know he doesn’t it’s hard for him to lift it up and uh especially if he takes it back to his forehand you know all I kind of have to do is get my my pattern my skate there so that’s I try to approach it and

That’s kind of what happened too you know this team isn’t going to play seven six six5 games this year the way things are going Personnel wise just pucks off the post is a goalie I mean does it help you focus more no one you know you’ve

Got to keep this thing down to two or three goals a night yeah I think uh how we’re facing that as a team is it’s it’s the bigger bigger thing here I think we we know that as a team it’s it’s not as much up and down any more as what it was

Last year and just you know Coast to Coast Hockey so um kind of knowing that we can’t go to the games and expect scoring seven so you know we have to find other ways to keep the game close and uh kind of you know just um defend

Well and uh you know get offense from the defense I guess so you know in the end I I feel like as I said many times before that we’ve been pretty solid defensively this year you’ve had two games no practices with both so far how’s the communication gone and how’s

It been with him back on defense with you it’s unbelievable he’s he’s a great player you know it’s it’s awesome to see him move the puck um you know and it’s I had a lot of confidence in him even though you know I I played with him you

Know one game now so um it’s been really fun he’s you know he’s confident and he talks a lot on the ice which helps me and I try to help him as much as I can so you know it’s been great so far

Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko Pekka Luukkonen speaks to the media after a 3-2 shootout win over the Edmonton Oilers. Luukkonen talks about the goal that was called back in overtime and how the team rallied to win in a shootout. He also discusses his mindset going against Connor McDavid.

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