Travis Green

Let them decompress a little bit.

Kind of check in with some of the guys on the team individually, how the temperature is.

And just to see where we have to get them to as coaches.

Are we going to have to turn the heat up again or are they fired up to go?

And I really believe they're going to be fine.

The consensus is they're excited.

And this is something that we've been...

Really building toward all year, probably knowing full well that with the shape of our game to a man in our room, we feel that we deserve to be in the playoffs and fighting to win a Stanley Cup.

I think there's a lot of belief in our room that we're not just here to play.

We're here to win the Cup.

We believe that we can beat anyone.

And we think our play has shown it this year.

We haven't got as many points as we thought we should have.

And we own that.

But now we're all starting even.

Yeah, and I give our group full credit.

You know, there are times.

There's times where, you know, coming into the rink, I knew our team would be really low.

And, you know, especially when you know you've played well and you've lost.

uh that burns a player it burns a team and i think our biggest challenge this year was just keeping them mentally strong and focused and you know we kind of came up i believe it was january we talked to our group about where we're at with our game and let's be very honest about it and