There were no issues with the Lions physical, perhaps over-physical off-the-ball tactics as suggested by an inquisitor.
The stakes are high, obviously, but Hansen's demeanour set the tone for his players' appearances afterwards, and hopefully for him, his team's performance on Saturday.
It is after all, not a life or death situation, he said. It's just a game and the All Blacks will learn from it whether they win, lose or draw. Rest assured, though, he will be putting everything into this week to get the right result as he sees it.
"It's not the first time we've lost," Hansen said. "I've read a lot of stories this week - you'd think the All Blacks had never lost a game and that the sky's falling in. Every week there's pressure.
"I've said this before - every week we're expected to win and win well. You've got to walk towards it and at the end of the day life tells you we're only playing a game. Real pressure is when you spend half an hour giving someone CPR and trying to save their life and when that doesn't work telling their children or their father or their mother that 'sorry, we haven't been able to save them'. That's real pressure, we're just playing a game of rugby.
"When you look at it what are the outcomes? We could win it, we could lose it, we could draw it. But we'll be a better team for it. We're a young side in the infancy of where we going. Is there any more pressure this week? No because we have to win to win the series. Just enjoy it and look forward to it and that's what we're doing."
There hasn't been any niggle in the series, Hansen believes, refusing to talk about Mako Vunipola's shot at a prone Beauden Barrett.
"I've got no problems with what the Lions are doing and I've got no problems with what we're doing. We've just got to own our little piece of the dirt individually and collectively as a team and get some go-forward, play some rugby, and when you do that the other stuff doesn't mean anything.
"That's what sport is about - trusting your abilities under pressure."
Hansen has full faith in 20-year-old Jordie Barrett at fullback and 24-year-old Ngani Laumape at second-five. Both are starting their first test and will be told to back themselves.
It's an attitude that Hansen has always taken for himself. "You just come to expect it," he said of the constant well-meaning advice. "The job comes with a lot of advisors. And you enjoy it. If you didn't have those people who were passionate and keen to tell you what they thought about it, you probably wouldn't have the All Blacks.
"I've always thought this. Our fans have a massive part to play in who we are because they have a massive expectation.
"For the team, we know what we have to do. We have to prepare really well, we have to make sure we don't get hyped up too much, we just have to do our job.
"When you go for a walk you don't think 'I'm going to go free here'. It's not a free walk, this. You pull your hoodie up and put your sunglasses on but they still know who you are so you take your hoodie off and sunglasses off and hold your wife's hand and hope like heck they don't want too many photos of her because she's way better looking than me.
"Do you stop your life because of that? Do you shrivel up and become a flower that needs water all the time because you stay inside or do you go outside and enjoy being alive and accept that yes some people want at a photo? Well how long does that take? And when you get sick of it you shorten your walk up and go back home.
"It's something we're really looking forward to because it's going to tell us a lot about ourselves and where we are heading."
