Hurricanes
Brind'Amour: We are also fighting the refs, it's that plain and simple
Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour did not hold back following Carolina's Game 3 loss to Nashville, regarding his opinion on the officiating in this series.
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Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour did not hold back following Carolina's Game 3 loss to Nashville, regarding his opinion on the officiating in this series.
well, what's the message? We played our butts off, played great, played hard, you know, we're playing a great team. And to me, you know, I didn't say it, but I think it's, we're in a battle and like I said, Nashville is a phenomenal team, but we're also fighting arrest. That's playing simple. You can't tell me two games in a row, we get seven and 8 penalties and they get three and when the games is even, that's, it's not right. It's not right that I get my guys tons of credit for just sticking and going and playing their butts off and had a good chance to win. I mean, we still have a chance to win coming back, Not right, two overtimes, you know, knickknack penalty when there was stuff going all over, just flip the momentum and they score the next shift after because we're out of rotation, it's and that's not how it should go. So I didn't tell him that, but I'm proud of my group because they just battled Sarah. Speaking of battling, can you kind of describe how Brett Pesci has grown since you first met him and what he needs to this team? He's been phenomenal, you know, I mean, especially now we're obviously this huge hole back there, you know, with Jacob not playing, I mean it's obvious and he's having to pick up the minutes and Shea Z, you know, all those guys back, they were putting some young kids in situations that probably wouldn't be in because of it, the injury, but you know, he's just been phenomenal. It's like that all, he's been like that from day one, I think just now in a situation like this, he just gets magnified, you get to see it that much more chip Yeah. Right, very grueling game. Obviously a long game. Look, look into sunday's game, you have a very tight turnaround. Do you anticipate maybe after a long game for ned changing goalies or changing out the lineup at all? I guess what I meant to ask you is, what do you think there's any chance to Jacob slave and being able to step in for Sunday's game? I don't know about Jacob, you know? Um, obviously hope so, but that's, you know, We'll be, we'll know at game time on that one. and as far as changing to line up, I don't know, we got to look at and decide. I mean, everybody played their ass off tonight, so I'm not the only way to take him out just because he got overworked, you know, that would be the only reason Tracy. Hi Rod, thanks for doing this. Actually. I was going to ask you about Alex and everything that he's gone through this year and and just your thoughts on him handling the latest challenge with a double overtime? Thank you. It was awesome. He played a phenomenal game with all the power plays, they had all the stress, like just the shots. He was very, very, you know, just on it and you just battled and I can't say enough about him. Yeah, kept us in the game and especially early, it wasn't great. We were on our heels a little and then he made some huge, huge shapes, just give us a chance, at least to maybe win that one. Corey Ron. Howard pressed for you with max tonight, being able to step in and then having to play in a double overtime game. Yeah, he did great. You know, you didn't look out of place. Um you know, I had the first couple of shifts there, he had a couple of chance to score right away, ripped one off to go his head there. So I mean he looked great and again, that's a tough spot to throw him in, but I thought he was good.