NHL Peachy: 2014 Stanley Cup Final Post-Game 3 Quotes (New York - Lundqvist)
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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Henrik Lundqvist
New York Rangers vs. Los Angeles Kings
Stanley Cup Final – Game 3
June 9, 2014
On tonight’s game…
“Well you try to stay positive right now, but it’s tough, it’s really tough. We are doing a lot good things, but you look at the goals and we put two in our own net and then just a tough play on the third one. At some point, you are going to need some puck luck and we don’t have any right now. It feels like they have all of it. We always talk about how you have to earn that puck luck, but I think we are working really hard and doing a lot of good things but when they score goals like that when it feels like we are right there and doing the right things, obviously it’s mentally challenging to try to overcome that first goal. And I think we played good in the second and they get that fluky bounce again on the second. It doesn’t matter what you think you deserve out there, you just have to find a way to win games and that’s what they have been doing. We can sit here and say we’ve played really well but at the end it’s about finding ways to win, and we haven’t done that.”
On the first goal…
“I was reacting low and it went high and it’s just one of those plays where with a little luck there that puck ends up in the netting or in the glass, but unfortunately with half a second left it ended up in our net. It was a tough play.”
On the series…
“I am just extremely disappointed that we are in this hole. We have been talking about it after every game that we played really well but in the end it’s about finding ways to win. It’s not about playing great, it’s about winning. We have to regroup. It’s not over. We are looking at getting the next game, that’s all we think about right now is that win. In a game like this every little play matters and it feels like they had the luck so far in these three games where it feels like the game has been pretty even, but they have been finding ways to get the big goals at the right times. I guess and it’s something we just have to accept and try to be a little better next game.“
