“Probably The Worst Period We Played All Year” | Buffalo Sabres Captain Kyle Okposo

“Probably The Worst Period We Played All Year” | Buffalo Sabres Captain Kyle Okposo

It just put you guys in a hole and it was just nothing going on and wasn’t your team uh it’s probably the worst period we played all year to be honest with you it was awful it was awful I mean I don’t know it was just not good enough I mean

Just giving up chance after chance on the wrong side of the park like it was bad and we just put ourselves in too big of a hole and we battle in the third but s’s too good to to go on a hole like that was this team a little mentally

Fried from losing a Tampa I don’t think so I mean I just I don’t know we have to have to do a better job of realizing like where we’re at and what we need and you know we obviously didn’t feel good but when you don’t feel good you have to do the

Little things correctly so you’re in the right positions and we just we wanted it easy and you want it easy easy and the other team starts to feel good it’s uh it’s going to be a long night and it was a long second period that’s for sure and

It seems like that’s been a problem all year when you don’t have your aame sometimes you got to have the B game and you guys have never really found the way to do that yeah it’s been the challenge for sure to to try and figure out how to

Play when we when we’re not at our best and um giving up too much and just like I said looking for kind of the easy way to to get offense and it seems like that’s what we were doing for uh uh you know the second period for sure and um

Yeah we have to do a better job of of playing an 82 Game season it’s a long season it’s hard it’s it’s uh it’s grueling you are not going to feel good every night I guarantee you the best players in the world don’t feel good

Every night but they find a way to to affect the game in a positive way and we have to do a better job of uh of doing that on a nightly basis now how do you summon emotion I mean that game was until the last 10 minutes was played

With almost no emotion at all it seemed um you know you try to do different things in the room you try to try to show it um by how you play by how you work and and we tried to do that in the third period you know just just a little

Battle Sammy blocking two big shots there like that’s that’s huge that’s where that’s the kind of thing we need and those are the type of things that that brought us up on the bench it gave us a little bit of life and we kind of got going after that I thought that that

Was a big thing cuzy shift at the end of the second like he goes and tries to run three guys in the dzone like he’s trying to do it we have guys that try to do it but we we need more consistency um in that aspect thanks

Buffalo Sabres forward and captain Kyle Okposo spoke with the media after the team’s 4-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on January 23, 2024 in California.

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