What Peter Laviolette said after the loss to Ottawa

Peter Laviolette met with the media following the loss to Ottawa and said (MSG):

“I think we need to do a better job defensively. There are too many things where they were coming at us with speed, I don’t think we layered properly or we don’t do the right things with regards to defending and taking care of the rush, they got behind us. Different reasons. All teachable things and things we can get better and show, but tonight it caught us a little bit.”

Rangers lose 6-2 in Ottawa

First Period:

Second Period:

Artemi Panarin (16) (Power Play) Assists: Adam Fox (13), Mika Zibanejad (14)
Vladimir Tarasenko (4) Assists: Drake Batherson (8), Tim Stutzle (19)
K’Andre Miller (5) Assists: Alexis Lafreniere (8), Artemi Panarin (21)
Drake Batherson (8) Assists: Vladimir Tarasenko (12)
Brady Tkachuk (13) Assists: Artem Zub (5), Erik Brannstrom (1)

Third Period:

Peter Laviolette met with the media following the win over the Sharks and said (MSG):

“Bit of a wild one. I liked the way we competed after coming in from last night, especially having to battle the way we did in the first period, the give and take, and then finally get a lead and push the lead again. I really liked the third period and the way we played it. You’re thinking that 6-3 is over and it wasn’t over. We could have been a little bit better there at the end, but at the end of the day guys fought really hard today under the circumstances and got ourselves a win.”

First Period:

Anthony Duclair (6) Assists: Kyle Burroughs (2)
Artemi Panarin (13) (Power Play) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (13), Adam Fox (12)
Ryan Carpenter (1) Assists: Jan Rutta (2)
Artemi Panarin (14) Assists: Vincent Trocheck (15), Alexis Lafreniere (7)
Mika Zibanejad (6) Assists: Chris Kreider (8), Jonny Brodzinski (3)

Second Period:

Third Period:

Three Stars:

Peter Laviolette met with the media following the win over Nashville and said (MSG):

It looked like they paid whatever price they needed to get the job done, “I agree. You are down 2-0 in a game and it’s always tough to climb out of a hole when you’re on the road. The first didn’t go the way we wanted, the second, I just thought we played a much better period, we played faster, the PP looked sharper and our guys were more on point and competed hard and as the game went on it really became a competitive game, blocking shots, physical, 1-on-1 battles and I thought our guys did a really good job crawling back into the game and gutting one out.”