"Cooper stated, 'I had a problem with us. We took four offensive zone penalties. Just look at them. That's not overaggression, that was stupidity on a lot of them. That was on us.'"
"He added, 'This is the Stanley Cup playoffs. This is not game No. 62. So that was extremely disappointing in the way that we conducted ourselves and the amount of penalties that we took.'"
"Cooper remarked, 'If you're going to kill penalties off at 50%, you're probably not going to last that long. But if you're killing penalties off at 50% when you only give up two [penalties], so it's 1-for-2, maybe you can survive. You can't let that happen. That's on us. No excuses.'"
Jon Cooper expressed frustration over the Tampa Bay Lightning's penalties during their Game 1 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Juraj Slafkovsky scored a hat trick, with all goals on power plays, leading to a 4-3 victory for Montreal. Cooper highlighted the team's four offensive zone penalties as 'stupidity' and emphasized the need for better discipline in the playoffs. Despite a strong regular-season penalty kill, the Lightning struggled post-Olympic break. Cooper noted that the volume of penalties was more concerning than the penalty kill's effectiveness.
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