Gerard Gallant met with the media following the win over Seattle and said (NYR):
- “Come on….”
- What did you think, “I think it was awful….yea, I’m not too happy.”
- Why, “Love the win…you know why, you watch the game…”
- The lack of offense, “Competitiveness, quite a bit. Disappointing.”
- Was it mostly with their forecheck, “they play hard and send four lines at you. I’m not disrespecting their team, I’m talking about my team and we just weren’t hard enough.”
- Do you see the team slipping a little bit, “The last three games, for sure, definitely.”
- Is there an explanation, “I’m going to try and find that out because I’m not happy. Today was disappointing to watch that after two losses, I expected a lot more from my group and didn’t see much of it.”
- On Shesterkin, “excellent, gave us a chance to win and that is what he does.”
- On Zibanejad, “I’m not going to talk about individual guys…Mika’s been great, but…I’m disappointed in my team. We are better than that, we talked about it two weeks ago, about coming in here and saying ‘oh, we won a big game against a real good team, well you gotta do it every night, you don’t do it once in a while and pick your games and pick your spots.”
- Do you sense that they are burned out, “I hope not, I don’t think so….I wish someone would tell me that if that is the case, but I don’t see that.”
- Your message is that you aren’t pleased with their effort, “they know that…they should know that, if they don’t know…nine shots after two periods against a team over there that is a hard working and competitive team, but….”