“I Liked The Response” | Buffalo Sabres Coach Don Granato After 6-2 Against Seattle Kraken
What what you like about the way the group responded after that early call uh I like the response exactly what you said uh I thought it was a great response not only from the game the other day um you know we we traveled out west uh last time we didn’t have the success
We obviously we got to get here a day earlier and acclimate a bit and I thought the energy level was high and we know we’ve played well with a with a high energy level and I felt we did tonight and the response after giving up a goal really early to respond really
Quick after that and then with a couple um I thought was uh was outstanding was your Decor really a key in terms of breaking their pressure tonight absolutely uh they they are a pressure team I still thought we could have done a much better job I thought we we
Weren’t as proficient as normal but you know through two periods I think there were 16 or 17 shots was all we gave up uh after killing quite a few penalties in in the first two periods so we were we were real good there um still uh still some areas I think Within that
Context of that we could have been much cleaner and be weren’t but um definitely definitely we’ve made major improvements in that over the last couple months and show was Tage really in that first period after you guys fall by in one- nothing not only his goal but setting up
Alex is that just the what you’ve kind of come to expect from him over the years yeah he’s uh you know we’ve he was on his game tonight you know when he’s on his game he does some special things and I thought again the goal the
Response to to you know we we give up an early one we hadn’t had success in this building yet obviously only playing twice uh in two years but but it’s still in your mind you know and and uh thought the goal and how decisive it was and the
Shot itself was uh was the quick response we needed and then obviously he was he was good through kind of a chaotic first period how do you avoid having the emotions go too high or too low in any direction there as things are swinging back and forth yeah you know
It’s our our team is really based off of you know the energy level and and I felt they had really good energy tonight and they respond and they have good energy it’s it’s not deflating and and even though we gave up that early one obviously uh there was no deflate um the
Guys had their legs and they felt good about their game and went right at it and as far as the emotions I mean you know it’s it’s fun to play in buildings that are that are alive and uh and energenic and we see that you know we’ve
We’ve seen that in our own building it’s it’s it’s it drives you it it excites you and you know and I think that’s uh something all players feed off of what you see from Jeff Skinner tonight a lot uh great night by by Skinner and and uh some good chemistry there beautiful play
By Greenway to finish uh for his hatrick but uh but I liked his jump and he’s he’s you know he’s um he looks he’s looked good the last couple games so nice to see him get rewarded the second goal that they had fluke bouncing Puck
Kind of a fluky one I mean the way that that uko responded after that is that just a sign of growth he didn’t let that that bother him at all he just kept going yeah there’s so many signs of growth with with Opie but you hit it
Things aren’t bothering him um you know the game is simpler it’s easier for him um you know he he’s his situational awareness has grown immensely um his uh his confidence and feel with the six defenseman um you know where shots are coming from and what he he needs to
Cover and what he doesn’t need to cover and compensate for so it’s it’s uh but yes it’s you know he’s he is looking much more mature every day how’ that tweak of the lines in the first period do you think really impacted things five
On five uh I do I think it did I think it was just um just a quick switch uh obviously I’ve been thinking about it before and didn’t want to do it prior but thought in back of my mind this is something we can do and again different matchups different line matchups I
Thought um you know that when I saw different matchups I thought that might be you know a good a good switch for us and it turned out it was
Buffalo Sabres head coach Don Granato spoke with the media after the team’s 6-2 win over the Seattle Kraken in Seattle on March 18, 2024. He talked about the team’s response to the early Kraken goal, Jeff Skinner’s hat trick, and more.
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