Charlie Coyle on momentum, mentality

Charlie Coyle on momentum, mentality

I think it’s all about how you prepare and focus, you know, after everything, you know, it’s I don’t think it just anything just happens, right? If you have that in your head and carry it through things that you did personally last game or as a team that we can kind of build on, then yeah, we can build on that momentum. But it’s how we start here and what we do. Um, and just playing the right way, having having a sense of urgency, being on our toes. Like I we were I felt like we smothered them a lot because we were move we weren’t waiting for things to happen. We were making things happen. Didn’t have the puck. We’re trying to get it back as quick as possible. And that kind of took everyone doing their job and and I guess trying to sway momentum within the game. So, but yeah, I don’t know the right answer to your question, honestly, but it’s uh you just try to prepare the best you can and then create it come game time. Game four with that extra day off and how are you kind of was it heightened because I mean you guys still played obviously a very tough tight game in game three, but game four was just kind of a different level. Yeah, I I agree. I think I think our we we raised our level in a lot of different ways in that game compared to game three compared to game two. But game three we still played a pretty good game, but game four is definitely noticeable difference um the right way and that paid off for us. So like if you get two game two days in between games, yeah, you use it to your advantage and get yourself prepared or rested, whatever you need to come ready to play and have a good game and whatever we did there was definitely the recipe because I thought we played pretty solid for the most part. So now it’s how do we how do we emulate that and build on that and we’re looking to do that tonight. That was gonna be kind of my next question is how do you box that up? And you know Pab was talking about playoffs being game to game is making little adjustments to just kind of find that almost perfect game. You guys had that in game four. How do you do you feel that there’s another level that you guys I think so like you never can play a perfect game, right? It’s hockey will just never go that way no matter how good you are. But it’s always good to to chase that because you do win. um in the way we did. Yeah, we did a lot of great things, a lot of good things, right? Um but there’s still these little small things where maybe they’ve had a chance or two or had some zone time, things we can clean up and look at and get better to even limit those even more. Um so that that’s that’s a sign of good teams to you win, you have you feel good about your performance, but there’s still still ways you can get better, improve for that next game. And you do that through video and talking and of course practices, morning, whatever it is. And you kind of use all that to your advantage to tighten it up and and get even better. How much does that pressure increase as you go from game to game in um you like you know what’s at stake. So, it’s just how you use it, honestly. And I think good teams kind of thrive under pressure uh in those high pressure situations, whatever it calls for in game moments or a game as a whole, a big game. And I think you just got to have the mindset and just kind of channel it in your favor. Um, having having some nerves and feeling the pressure is a good thing if you if you can channel it, turn into excitement rather than just straight nerves and, you know, kind of paralyzing yourself, right? We’ve all had those in our everyday lives and everyone kind of does it differently and some better than others, right? But as a team, you have that confidence about you. You channel it the right way and you just get excited for the opportunity front. Can you explain players mentality game five? that’s different than game one. Um, that’s a good question. I guess the mentality is somewhat the same. Like you go out to to to win a hockey game. You try to do what you can for your team individually within the team game structure to make sure you’re at your best to win your battles and put forth a good effort to to help your team win. Um, I think come game five, you know a little bit more about your opponent, what to do tendencywise. Um, so there’s little things like that, but I think the mindset is still pretty similar where you you’re you’re going to do a job and you know what you got to do for yourself within the team to to do the best you can to help your team

Avalanche Charlie Coyle said the team looks to keep the momentum from the Game 4 win into Game 5 back in Dallas.