Sheffield Steelers v Nottingham Panthers - Preview: Robert Dowd interview - video Dailymotion

Interview with Sheffield Steelers captain Robert Dowd ahead of his team's Elite League play-off semi-final against Nottingham Panthers.

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00:00Yeah exciting time of the year obviously you're two games away from a trophy now so it's all the

00:16boys are ready and excited to get up there and get it going. You've seen a couple of trophies go

00:20elsewhere already obviously this season which must be frustrating obviously this is one that you

00:23you sort of got but this is the last one that you got last year how much is that sort of motivating

00:28factor for you guys to to sort of detect something from this season because it's been a competitive

00:32season you've had a good season it would be nice obviously to finish on a high. Yeah absolutely

00:38Belfast have done a fantastic job obviously securing those two we took them to the wire in the last

00:43game which is it hurts but it's the nature of the sport and they fully deserved it and they had a

00:49great season but yeah I think obviously trying to cap off the season with some silverware is obviously

00:55a big thing for us and we're going to be fully focused on that but we can't get too ahead of

00:59ourselves we've got Saturday to get through first so we're going to go and play our best game against

01:02Nottingham we can. And you're going to have to aren't you because Nottingham this season have proved to

01:06sort of be a very very strong team we're in the title front along with yourselves and Belfast

01:10going into that final weekend they're a different beast obviously all together aren't they?

01:15Absolutely Nottingham have been fantastic this year obviously I think they've done a very good job

01:19there Danny has put together a great team and they've got a great core of guys there right now

01:23that have played some very good hockey and going into their building obviously it's an away game

01:29so we've got to go in there and be ready to play our best

01:31In terms of your guys batting and bruises usually at this time of year you're all carrying something

01:37no doubt and playing through something how much over the course of this season has this group

01:42impressed you as their leader?

01:44Yeah I think we've got a fantastic group of guys a fantastic group of people

01:48It's been a different group obviously there's a few changes but you know they've enjoyed some success

01:55Absolutely obviously what we did in the CHL earlier on in the season was absolutely amazing

02:00and yeah this group is just a great group of people and I'd like nothing more than to lift some silverware with them

02:06every week we work hard together and like everybody in the league everybody's batted and bruised right now

02:13it's that time of year and the schedule in this league is more gruelling than I think than any other schedule out there

02:19so there'll be people playing banged up but it's that time of season where you saddle up and play

02:24so there'll be people playing banged up, so we need a working competition

02:29and we don't