Craig Button
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You don't get 100 points by accident.
Trust me when I tell you, Tony, not one bit concerning me.
Is anybody talking about Sebastian Ajo's line not doing anything for the 8-0 Carolina Hurricanes?
Well, it depends what you define as nothing.
Yeah, if you look at the offensive numbers, not great, but that's still a line that's been playing really, really well.
Again, I'll emphasize, for the 8-0 playoff Carolina Hurricanes.
Well, you know, again, you watch goaltenders, there's going to be times they give up a bad goal.
There's going to be players, skaters that make a bad play, a turnover that leads to a goal and
You know, like being able to park mistakes is such a key part of being able to not only stay in the moment, but be able to move forward.
And, you know, for a goaltender, and I'll go specifically to goaltending, you want to be technically sound.
You want to have everything going right.
But there's times when it isn't.
And if you're less than 100%, if you're 85%,
You know, you want to get the most out of your 85%.
That's where, in my view, that's where Kent talks about, you know, the mental strength.
Understand, okay, like, you know, I got to make sure the next one doesn't go in.
Sometimes you got to throw a form out the window and just say, I got to find a way to stop this puck from going across the goal line.
And sometimes goaltenders, and you've seen it, Tony, I've seen it, we've all seen it, where –
They can't park those mistakes.
If they're not technically sound and a play goes in, they don't understand that sometimes form doesn't matter.