Kent Hughes

Carolina may be more than any other team.

I don't say that knowingly, just more from an observer's perspective.

I think they were really focused on how they played, and less about how everybody, who they're playing.

And we played Tampa, very gifted offensive team, very focused defensively.

And I think when we came into the Buffalo series, the guys felt there was a little bit more room to play our game.

But then we also realized that when you focus too much on how much room you have and not the defensive side of it,

That was a really dangerous team to play against from an offensive perspective, and we saw it in the game.

So I suspect throughout the course of this series, like the other ones, there will be ups and downs.

So that doesn't mean that you can afford to aim more and not make the necessary adjustments to do with the style of play.

There are several things that I haven't tried, but if there is one thing I haven't tried, it's that Europe is really a belief.

And in difficult moments, I think, in the second or seventh match,

In the first two weeks, especially with Canada, because it was really hard.

We had to come back for three periods.

But it's up to the coaching staff to make the next first half better.

After the quarter, it was clear that our next success was going to be a match-off.

We saw that we had won.

We built a lot.

I have a little bit of time, but it's still a long way to go.

Instead of continuing to work and go out and spend a lot of money, we continue to be able to find ways to do what the team is capable of.

It's not easy at times.