“Feels Good” | Tage Thompson Scores Four Goals In Buffalo Sabres Win Over New Jersey Devils
You had to fight through a lot this year whether it’s been injuries or whatever that had to feel great for you to to be able to get a four goal game get a win and just perform like that yeah for sure um I think if you look at the season as
A whole there’s a lot of um you know games or situations where things you know didn’t seem to go our way as a group or individuals and um obviously um last night didn’t go the way we wanted and wasn’t a good enough effort especially at the time of the year we’re
At right now and I thought kind of get off to a similar start down two and um would have been easy to kind of just fold the tent and pack in and I thought we responded the right way and um I think that says a lot of about the
Character in the room and the guys we got here um so it was nice to get that one it feels really good what was the talk on the bench what did you guys want to do to refocus once you’re down two nothing in that situation well I think
Um the kill gave us a lot of momentum obviously they get two two power plays right after going up two nothing um you know that’s a kind of a dagger and um the kill stepped up big time there Levi made some huge saves and that gets us
Some some momentum heading into the the intermission there and I think we can kind of just catch your breath uh Focus back up I think in here we just talked about not letting you know uh mistakes compound and turn into you know three four five goals and I thought we did a
Great job we came out um you know play a simple game put it behind them made them go chase the puck and um I thought we we were playing a really fast pace game tonight so that’s uh you know we got them on their heels in the second and uh
I think a quick goal obviously L right out of the gate in the second puts them on their heels as well next JJ and Alex you guys have all had a lot of consistency lately but is there a point tonight where you say okay I’m feeling
This how many goals does it take for you to think you’ve really got it on tonight or do you just let it keep coming yeah I mean I think goals are they’re by product of you know doing the right things and I feel like throughout the
Course of the season I’ve had a lot of great chances and um maybe been Snak bit at times and maybe let that get to me a little bit and obviously when you know one or two starts going for you you start to feel good about your game and
That confidence starts to come back so um you know it was nice to have a game like this and um you know get a few and obviously the win is is most important and I think that gets everyone in the room feeling good so on the game winner
You guys had had huge pressure in the offensive zone when Rasmus got that puck do you just feel K it that because you know he has the the tendency to be able to get it through yeah I mean it’s a heads up play by him he’s one of the
Best defenseman in the world and I think for us when we got out there after the icing it was just kind of we knew we had a tired group out there and um dos makes a you know a great play to the net and
Um we got a tired group and they lose a battle in front of the net so um you know that’s that’s the difference and um obviously we’ve been on the other side of that so we know how important those those shifts are first period has been
Such a talking point all year but the third period you guys are like plus 22 or something like what do you think it is about third periods we’ve talked so much about the first but what is it at the end of games yeah I mean I think you
Can talk about both first third second it’s it’s a full 60 and I think for us going into games I think you can it’s it’s an excuse but it it is it is what it is we’re a young team and going into games against teams that have been
Around they know how to play Simple until they get to their game and that’s something that we need to get better at is just finding ways to simplify until we start feeling that feeling that Rhythm of the game and and I think for us third period we it goes back to what
I was saying about the character we got a lot of guys that respect and one another and want to play hard for each other and um when we find ourselves up against the wall I think we’ve also been in situations where we’ve proven to ourselves that we can claw our way back
Into gamees so we know we’re capable of it so I think that just gives us that confidence when we’re behind in games um obviously it’s not where you want to be you want to be you know having leads going into into the third and but it’s
Nice to know that we have a group that can you know score and and CLW our way back if we need to
Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson spoke with the media after the team’s 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on March 29, 2024.
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