Matthew Tkachuk Reflects on Tough Loss in Stanley Cup Final

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00:00Here's Matthew Kachuk, who actually tries to sprinkle some good news on,

00:04oh, we did some good things in the game. You lost, dude. Here he is.

00:07Yeah, you know, both goalies were unreal tonight, and yeah, it was probably a good game.

00:13What can you take from this one, Matthew, as you head back to Edmonton?

00:17Yeah, take our first period, take our third period, you know, the beginning of overtime.

00:22I thought we did a lot of good things, and yeah, it's the best of three.

00:26I don't really know. It's just, you know, with losing this one tonight,

00:30we've got to go in there and win one eventually, so hopefully we can do it game five.

00:34Yeah, he had a great game. I mean, there's no denying it.

00:39He scored the first two goals. That doorstep goal was a little top-shelf job,

00:43and he was standing right there when the rebound came out, and he snapped it upstairs.

00:48So I thought Matt played great, but they lost, so it is what it is.

00:52I mean, let's just face facts. This is an absolutely phenomenal Stanley Cup final,

01:00and I do think it was one of the best hockey games ever last night.

01:04You can talk about, oh, this is the Stanley Cup final.

01:07This is, you know, what we live for. This is what it's all about,

01:11and to see three overtime games, and then that game last night down 3-0,

01:16and you win 5-4 in overtime on a dry sidle, you just can't match that.

01:21That's the stuff. They'll remember that game right there last night for,

01:26they'll be talking about that game last night for 30 years, honestly, if they win the Cup,

01:31because you always have to win one game that's special, that you had no chance,

01:36no business winning, and you got it done and busted your ass and found a way.

01:41There's always, it's never an easy climb to win Lord Stanley.

01:45It's a tough climb to dance with Lord Stanley. You do not just waltz in and win the Stanley Cup.

01:53You suffer. 16 wins you got to get. It's a bitch.

01:59It's not easy, but the level of play has been so high quality in this series.

02:05It's just been such a fun watch. I know you had one game that was 6-1,

02:10and that was entertaining for other reasons if you like to watch nonsense like you did at the end of that game.

02:15But this series has had everything. I think it's hard. It seems like no game is over.

02:223-0, two goal leads, one goal, it doesn't matter.

02:25You've had the two latest tying goals in Stanley Cup final history in this series.

02:30It's the Perry goal earlier in the series, and then last night with Reinhardt.

02:34The two latest tying goals in final history.

02:36Here's Paul Maurice. Hey, what can I tell you? Both teams are good. It's best of three now.

02:42Well, it was just a mirror of the first period.

02:44We got into, they got into a little penalty trouble there, and we took advantage of it.

02:49The second period was just the opposite.

02:51I think we were plus three on the power play side early and minus three on the power play side in the second half.

02:58And then we came out in even tight games, right?

03:02Both teams had some chances there, cracked some bars, and had some chances they didn't go,

03:08and it's a bad break on the overtime winner.

03:10So three of the four games have gone to overtime,

03:13and I think that's probably the expectation of what we have going forward.

03:18Front left?

03:19When you have a game like this, the way it ends and everything,

03:22is it good to be on a flight tomorrow?

03:25I know it's a long flight, but just you guys are flying out and playing again.

03:31Better if we won it.

03:33Yeah, thanks.

03:36If you plan for seven games, that means you're losing three of them.

03:42Yeah.

03:43Better if we won it.

03:45Yeah.

03:45I'm your boy.

03:46We have heard some great, just horrific questions, some great ones.

03:53I thought, what was it, yesterday, listening to the chick ask questions.

03:57Yeah.

03:58Oh, my God.

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