Craig Berube, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach
Craig Berube addressed the media after the Maple Leafs’ 7-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens, which improved the workforce’s file to 29-16-2.
On the 3-0 gap the workforce put itself in after 20 minutes:
Simply win extra battles. We watched. They skated. We didn’t win any puck battles. We uncovered the center of the ice within the first interval.
I imply, all three targets had been preventable. We had been just a bit bit unfastened. Once more, it’s about profitable battles.
On the workforce’s comeback effort:
They had been resilient. They’re. They did a very good job of managing the sport from that time on, I assumed. They bought one, bought momentum, after which bought two. We weren’t attempting to open it up or something like that. Simply keep it up.
Our goalie was wonderful and needed to be. Montreal was taking part in nicely. They bought so much good gamers, and Wollsy needed to be good.
On Bobby McMann scoring with Matthew Knies’ stick:
Possibly he ought to change.
Bobby had an amazing sport. I assumed he skated. Like lots of guys, after the primary interval, it was a completely completely different workforce on our facet. Bobby was skating tonight.
That’s his power: his capability to skate and shoot pucks. He was stable tonight for us. Good to see.
On swapping Pontus Hlmberg into the middle spot subsequent to William Nylander over Max Domi:
I similar to Holmberg’s sport, even going again to the Jersey sport, with the way in which he’s skating with the puck and hanging onto pucks.
I beloved Willy tonight. He was going. He was on his toes from the get-go, attempting to make a distinction. I made the change.
On the Leafs getting back from 3-0 down vs. Montreal for the primary time since 1969:
Been a very long time because it occurred. It’s nice, although. It’s a nice rivalry. Everyone knows that.
We talked about it. For my part, it wasn’t simply one other sport. It was an enormous sport for each groups.
Montreal has been taking part in extraordinarily nicely. It confirmed within the first interval, however we bought our toes beneath us, and began taking part in the appropriate manner doing the appropriate issues.
It was an amazing comeback win from the blokes. Our goaltender led the way in which, for my part.
On Joseph Woll’s side-to-side diving saves late within the third interval:
He did some diving. Somewhat (Grant) Fuhr motion, which is sweet to see. He had lots of effort in internet tonight, which was necessary.
On Woll’s dealing with of the elevated workload:
It’s extra video games than he has usually performed in a row. He’s standing tall and doing a very good job for us in all areas. He performed the puck nicely tonight and battled in internet, which he needed to.
There was lots of motion across the internet tonight. This workforce does lots of good issues offensively. He needed to be sharp.
On Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s multi-point sport:
He was taking pictures the puck tonight from the get-go. He was simply lacking the web a little bit bit on some pictures. We had visitors there.
He stayed with it and bought rewarded. It was good to see our D taking pictures pucks, getting issues to the web, and conserving pucks alive within the offensive zone.
We have now to proceed to try this.
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