On whether the game goes back to the power play goes surrendered in the first:
Well, I mean, sure you can look back and say that but, you know what, we had 54 shots and I mean, we scored four goals. You think that would be enough to win a game, clearly it wasn’t. There’s lots of things that you can probably pinpoint as the difference, but I liked our resolve again. So, you know what, we come in here tomorrow and we get the game we end up at .500 for the weekend. Not exactly the way we wanted it to be but it’s pretty hard to be disappointed in your players, in their work, when you’re generating that kind of an offense. Hey, we’ll get back at it tomorrow.
On how difficult it was to deal with Tucson being able to answer each time the Reign got the game within a goal:
That’s tough. Kind of kicks the wind out of your sails a little bit. But, you know what, you look at Tucson and they can score as good as anybody in the league. You can’t let off the throttle, even for a second. You get all excited, we went down and we had a good shot off the pads, a second opportunity and the next thing you know they’re going down our way, shot off the pads, second opportunity and it’s in the back of the net. But again, I mean, you gotta stay with it. So, I think we just ran out of time.
On whether he’s looking for something different with the start every night and going into tomorrow:
Well, yeah, the starts could be better obviously but I think, to me, when I’m watching I was like, I don’t know how many games now I can think of where the opening puck drops and it’s in our end. We never seem to be in their end right off the opening faceoff. Ever. So that is a little bit of a concern. Last night, in Bakersfield, we had one O-zone faceoff the whole first period. That was because they iced the puck, not for anything we did. But we had one O-zone faceoff. So, yeah, do we need better starts? Certainly. First periods, start, opening faceoff, win it, let’s get it in their end. Sure there’s times where you can look and we probably did but majority of the time, we’re starting the game on our heels. And I’d rather see us be on our toes.
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