“Right Now It’s About Winning Games” | Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen After 7-0 Win Over Kings

“Right Now It’s About Winning Games” | Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen After 7-0 Win Over Kings

What did it mean to you at the very end of the game when your teammates are killing a penalty and they’re diving in front of Puck to make sure that you get your shut out a lot you know um you know I’ve been talking about how uh how well

Defensive we’ve been playing um and how much we want it you know uh I think that kind of proves it uh you know it means a lot to me I always say it’s uh it’s not me who gets the shout out it’s a team and you know I think they they did most

Most of the work in the end for me so you know it feels awesome how nice is it to see let me ask you this do you play differently when it’s one nothing or three nothing I mean when they G they gave you a three nothing first period

Lead does that change the way you think it all or are you thinking the same way no matter what the score is you know I try to keep the you know level head I think when we’re winning it’s it’s easier but like you know a couple last

Games before this we were uh you know we were odd shooting teams and I think those are you know the harder harder games to kind of keep level head when we like kind of uh you know getting all the offense but k score so you know it’s in

The end you just have to face every shot the same it doesn’t matter what what point of the game it is so you know I I don’t I don’t like you know um think too much differently how important was it to get some goal support and for the team

To have a lead early for the first time in a while I think you know getting the lead was the most important thing uh you know I think getting getting goals is of course important for the guys but I think from winning standpoint and kind of what’s been problem for us we’ve been

Giving the first goal away um you know you can look at Stats and it’s a Hu huge thing in a game who gets the first goal so you know I think that was one of the more important things today so confident right now that if you

See the puck you feel like you’re going to stop it do you know what I mean sometimes they talk about goalies like that they see it they’re going to they feel like they can stop it yeah I feel like we’ve been doing great job they’ve

Been boxing guys out so you know I see most of the pucks uh and uh that of course helps me you know it’s it’s hard to be a blind goalie so you know it helps me to see the pucks uh and uh I feel like you know something sometimes I

Don’t see it and we get a stick on it or something and it goes to the netting so you know uh I’ve been getting a lot of help from the guys and uh it makes my job easier what’s it mean you be the first saers goalie since Ryan Miller to

Have four more shutouts in one season um you know I I didn’t know that but it’s great uh it kind of um feels good you know kind of see uh see what it you know uh you know I’ve been working hard so you know kind of getting getting uh

Getting uh you know some uh things you know from that uh you know playing good good hockey it feels great to help the team to win and uh you know of course it’s great to get those shout outs but you know right now it’s just about winning games is it frustrating from the

Standpoint I mean you guys played a great game I mean you went to the net they everybody did what they needed to do to win a hockey game but is it almost frustrating that you haven’t seen more of that this year as a team yeah but I feel like it’s it’s good

For the guys you know we kind of figure out what we need to do to score uh you know we don’t need to score seven every night but I feel like it’s good to get one of those nice too um I think we played hard uh both ways today so uh

It’s I think it’s you know uh confidence standpoint for the guys it’s it’s really Good

Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen speaks to the media after a 7-0 win and his fourth shutout of the season. He discusses the strong play from his team in front of him and how confident he feels in net.

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