In overtime,\u00a0defenceman Ryan Shea was forced off the puck along the boards by Paul Cotter \u2013 the main contributor in Tuesday’s loss with two goals for the Canucks \u2013 before Max Sasson backhanded home the winner.<\/p>\n
For Bouchard, it’s not a matter of bad habits creeping back in, but about everyone committing to a new way of playing to limit chances against.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s just about buying in, less thinking, and it\u2019s new,” Bouchard said. “You’re gonna have some hiccups, but there are little things that aren’t the system’s fault. Whether it was a bad pinch or giving up odd-man rushes like we did tonight, it’s not going to go well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having set the standard during Training Camp & Preseason, Head Coach Mike Babcock says his team still has plenty to learn early in the season as they adjust to new tactics and systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think for one second it was going to be easy,\u201d\u00a0Babcock said. \u201cTonight was an indication that we have serious work to do, and so we\u2019re just going to have a look at it tomorrow and show the players and clear it up.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut playing like that — we started fine — but playing like that and getting away from what we\u2019re supposed to do is unacceptable for us, so we have to set a better standard for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In overtime,\u00a0defenceman Ryan Shea was forced off the puck along the boards by Paul Cotter \u2013 the main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-916306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}