“I don’t think I put my finger on any one specific player area. I think there’s a little bit of everything. One thing I like since the break is that we have done better at defending off the rush. Going back to the end of January and those two games in February, I thought we were giving up a lot there, and that’s been better. But whether or not it’s in the defensive zone, it’s just a lot of miscues.”

“We have players around the net and we’re protecting the slot. There was a lot of emphasis during the Olympic break when we came back and had those practices on protecting the slot a lot better than we were, and we’ve have been doing that, but sometimes we’ve got guys there and we still don’t get the job done.”

“Right now, we’re talking about Xs and Os and all that. And that’s important, but I also think there’s a mindset. You just have to try to get your head around defending, and you have to just bear down doing it. You can play whatever system you want, and you’re never going to do it perfectly. It’s just a guideline for you, and it’s a tool to make everybody be on the same page.

“But at the end of the day, it comes down to how willing we are to defend and keep the puck out of our net.”