\u201cI think we\u2019re a play or two away, someone maybe getting hot,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cListen, I\u2019m not going to shy away from it. Our top guys have got to score some goals for us. They know that too. I don\u2019t have to remind them. They know that. That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to get over this and try to get the momentum on our side. But I still think they\u2019ve done some good things. We just haven\u2019t finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tortorella said the coaches worked on special teams Saturday. The power play was too deliberate in Game 3, holding onto the puck and allowing the Mammoth to get into the positions they wanted based on their scouting. He thinks the Golden Knights need a different look.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think we\u2019re on the outside too much, on the outside too much on the power play, and if there\u2019s one thing in our 5-on-5, if we\u2019re going to start scoring some goals, we\u2019ve got to be on the inside more,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not a big change. It\u2019s just a little bit of a mindset, an emphasis on those types of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vegas is loaded with veterans, many of whom won the Stanley Cup there in 2023. The Golden Knights know how important Game 4 will be. Teams that have fallen behind 3-1 in a best-of-7 series have won the series only nine percent of the time (32-325) in NHL history.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur players know where they’re at,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cI don\u2019t have to remind them in these situations when momentum swings in series happen. We win the first game; they get two. The momentum\u2019s on their side. We don\u2019t have to remind this group here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll be ready to play Game 4, as they were in Game 3. They were ready to play. I thought they came out, did some things we wanted to do. Funny things happen in games. I know the group will be ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think we\u2019re a play or two away, someone maybe getting hot,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cListen, I\u2019m not going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-607376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}