Dustin Brown, on his hit on Logan Couture:

Like I said, I didn’t even know it was even a big deal until after the game, really. I didn’t also see the hit. I still haven’t seen the hit. It was one of those [hits where] I stopped and he was going north, and I was going south. It wasn’t anything that I thought [was controversial], at least when it happened, how I felt on the ice. You know on the ice whether it’s a borderline hit or not, and it didn’t feel like it to me.

Brown, on whether something was fundamentally wrong, or whether there were many little things that weren’t working in the Kings’ performance:

We just weren’t sharp. We were sloppy in all aspects of the game, really. We just weren’t very sharp for whatever reason. Our game’s puck possession, passing the puck, moving the puck well and skating for each other. It was sloppy all over from our goal line to their goal line. The compete level wasn’t where it needed to be as well, so it’s like you put those two together, and the result’s going to be ugly for the type of team we are.

Brown, on the special teams challenges:

Yeah, we took too many penalties, for one. I don’t know how many it was, but in the first little bit of the game, there was a lot of PK. … The types of goals we gave up, too, were a lot of tips.

Brown, on the team’s recent struggles in home openers:

I mean, it’s hard to say, really. From a collective, team standpoint, we haven’t been good the last couple, and even if you go back, I know the year after we won the [first] Cup, we got spanked by Chicago. I don’t think there’s any real pattern, for whatever reason.



Matt Greene, on when he found out he’d be in the lineup Wednesday:

I was feeling good. Just told Darryl I felt good and thought I had a good chance of playing that night after the pre-game skate.

Greene, on whether he felt any limitations:

Just play, yeah. It’s always different going from preseason to regular season, and you just adjust and get your legs under you.

Greene, on Wednesday’s challenges:

A lot of things added up. We needed more compete, we needed more guys to work harder. We’ve got to have better execution, we need a lot of things going forward to win games and to get back to where we know we can play.

Greene, on whether it’s difficult to transfer from the preseason to the regular season:

Every other team’s doing it. Every other team’s going to get there. Obviously San Jose was there last night and we weren’t, and we’ve got to do it in a hurry.