Brown, Richards recap Game 4, preview Game 5

Dustin Brown, on several players skating after arriving late last night:
It’s just about getting ready. We can skate tomorrow early, I’m sure some guys will skate tomorrow early, but at this point in the year it’s about getting what you need personally. That’s why there is a group of our guys out there that would rather skate today. Again, it’s all about tomorrow night.

Brown, on whether there is a sense of frustration after the loss:
No. It’s about, again, being harder in the hard areas. Everyone is talking about these two pucks that laid on the goal line, again that’s a hard area that blue paint. We’ve got to be harder there, pucks go in for us. It’s just about keep going forward.

Brown, on the adjustments they need to make for Game 5:
I think, we’ve been saying this a lot, we need to have a good start. The last 30 minutes of Game 4 we were really good. It showed, I think we maybe gave up three shots. We were really good on the defensive side of the puck which gave us more offensive zone time. But the first 10, 15 minutes of the game we didn’t have the start or the intensity that we needed. So it’s about bringing that right from the start.

Mike Richards, on whether he is satisfied with the Game 4 performance:
There are always things you can do better in a win and a loss. There are always things to look at. There are things you’ve done well and there are things you need to improve. So that’s just the way we approach things. From day one we’ve always felt that we could get better no matter what time of year it is or what we’re doing. If we’re still playing hockey, there are things we need to improve and today is no different.

Richards, on resetting after last night’s loss:
It’s obviously disappointing. You have a chance to do something great and you don’t do it. It’s disappointing, but we’re at home tomorrow night. A place where we have played well and we feel comfortable. We just have to play better.

Richards, on clinching a series at home versus on the road:
You don’t pick and choose what position you get put in. You’ve never wished winning in any place really, you just want to win. It doesn’t matter if it’s at home, on the road, where it is. You just want to have success.

Richards, on how the flight home was:
Long. [Reporter: You guys got back at 3:00 a.m.?] Yeah, a lot of people slept. You’re up for about an hour, two hours just because of the game. But there was some discussion about what we wanted to do and a day and a half to get ready for the game and then everybody kind of shut ‘er down.

Richards, on his preparation for Game 5:
I wanted to skate today and take tomorrow morning off and be ready for a 5:00 match.