‘“I felt great about the competitive effort from the start,” Granato said with Howard Simon and Jeremy White. “Washington came out with a lot of energy, and it took us a little bit to match it. I definitely felt like there were segments where we were setting the tone. I thought it was a great game, and a game we needed. Our last time on the road was Seattle, and that was ugly in many ways, and we needed to be better. We needed to be competitive and passionate, and we had that last night. We just didn’t score enough.”’