The Carolina Hurricanes fell 4-3 to the Vancouver Canucks Saturday night to drop their fourth straight contest.
Jordan Martinook, Brady Skjei and Stefan Noesen all scored in the loss and Antti Raanta allowed four goals on 24 shots.
After the game, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour and Sebastian Aho spoke with the media. Here's what they had to say:
Rod Brind'Amour
On his takeaways: The third period was great. It didn't feel like they were in our end, but fortunately for them, one of their best players got us on a nice individual effort. We can't... we gave them two goals. Just lack of coverage. Just standing there watching the guy tap it in. That can't happen against any team, let alone a good team that knows how to play and plays hard. After the first, we took some penalties and that was not ideal. I thought that kind of put us on our heels. Then after that, I thought the game was just kind of back and forth, not much going on. Then I thought we had a good third, but you can't give them two goals.
On the message after another loss: I don't know. It's tough because you gotta play 60 minutes, right? When you give up a goal just here and there, right now, we don't have that margin. That's been the interesting thing. But at the end of the day too, we've gotta get more out of some of our guys. Our top guys are not scoring. They're not really contributing offensively, which is making it hard. Liked the third. We dug in, just didn't get it.
On not scoring on the 5-on-3: Well he made a couple of nice saves on the 5-on-3, but our power play was not good at all. Their penalty kill was good and we had a couple of little chances, but that wasn't very good.
On building off the third period: I mean, that's a positive spin on it. At the end of the day, I don't know what the chances ended up being, but it's not like we got dominated, but we certainly didn't get to the game that we have to play to be successful. Again, all I can think in my head is how we just gave two goals up. They made nice plays on them, but they're covered. You gotta... that's not going to work.
Sebastian Aho
On the game: Obviously a tough loss. Easily could have... if we were effective on the power play whatsoever, we could have won the game, but obviously that's not the standard we've set before. We're not happy about the game right now. Just have to be better overall. So many details in the game that we just have to do better in. We've done a lot of talking and now it's time to put it out there and show it.
On not scoring on the 5-on-3 power play: At 5-on-3, I thought we had three good looks. One-timers, seam passes. I thought they were pretty quality shots, so it is what it is. Kind of how it goes sometimes, but I wasn't... I'm obviously a little frustrated. You hope you can cash in on those, but everyone knew on the bench that we gained some momentum. So it didn't take the wind out of the team and obviously a big goal at the end that gave us some momentum going into the third. But yeah, I don't think that... obviously would have helped, but I don't think it was the reason why we lost the game.
On the message in the locker room: I like to keep that in the room, but we're obviously not happy and we're frustrated. Like I said, we've done a lot of talking. It's not the first meeting that we've had, but the time is now to show it to us and everyone what we're capable of. The only way out is together.
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