When Philipp Grubauer stood in the dressing room following Colorado’s first of two road games against the Arizona Coyotes this season, he didn’t try to fill his self-assessment with generic buzzwords or platitudes.
“It took me a little while to settle in,” he surmised, “but the bottom line is that I can still do better. I can’t keep relying on the team to score four, five, six goals a night to win the game… this is what, one of my first games where I didn’t allow three goals? I can’t keep doing that.”
That game against Arizona, which saw Colorado take home a 5-1 win over their future divisional opponents, was what he considered the first game in which he felt truly ‘back’, so to speak.