Morgan Rielly was talking about trying to get the swagger back. As a coaching staff, how can you help the guys get back to that?
Babcock: Well, the biggest thing is: When you leave the rink each night and when your team has won and you?ve played well, you feel really good. When you are disappointed and you don?t like how you played, you don?t feel as good. A big part of that is sticking to the process longer and doing it right and we?ll be rewarded.
That?s a good question. That?s what we went through here today ? identified our game. Last night was a perfect example. When they scored their first goal, we had the puck the whole time. They scored a goal and boom, the next thing you know, it?s two. And then the second period started and we own it. They don?t have it. They get the puck and shoot it in our net. The next few shifts ? again, we didn?t handle it.
To me, to say we weren?t prepared or didn?t play well ? that?s not true. But when it went bad, what did we do? The whole game is mistakes. It goes bad regularly, but how do you pick each other up? How do you handle it? How do you get back on track quickly and handle that? We spoke about that as well.
