Sheldon Keefe

Sheldon Keefe addressed the media after his team's 2-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

We are certainly earning respect in the league, but again, we are not in the respect game. We will have exit meetings and stuff with the players. We are in the winning game. He is a guy who doesn’t have time on his side in the league. They don’t get a lot of credit because you don’t really think of them this way, but we knew coming into this series that going into third periods down against this team was going to be a challenge. They are the number-one team in the NHL when it comes to limiting chances against when up a goal in the third period. We will see how the rest of the playoffs go, but obviously, that team has the recipe, and the players have figured it out. That is sort of the hallmark of their success. The biggest thing that I take away from the series… This one is tough because I really feel that we are a lot closer than it appears. The fact that you come that close against that team… We didn’t finish the chance.