So far, it's been a good
vibe around the locker room.
You look up and
down the list, you
don't see a couple
of guys that don't
like each other's company.
And something like that's huge.
So far, obviously, with the
beginning of the year starting,
and then with our
team specifically,
it's huge with a team that
has so much to prove after how
things went last year.
First semester going well,
second semester not the best.
So looking to finish up
pre-season pretty well
and carry that
momentum into Saturday.
We have a very
hard-working group.
Really impressed with
the dry-land workouts.
And then once we
got on the ice, it's
been a little bit of an
adjustment period getting
everybody on the same page
with systems and everything
like that.
So that's something
we've been working on.
And hopefully, we can
show that this weekend.
Lost a couple of key guys
coming into this year,
but the good thing is the
majority of guys coming back--
they experienced what we
went through last year.
With a good chunk
of the team having
to fight that
adversity last year,
it's going to be good
having so many guys hungry
coming back and kind of wanting
to fix what happened last year.
And if we can carry that into
the beginning of this season,
get another strong
start, it's probably
going to be pretty tough to have
another tough second semester.
We have a really good
group of seniors.
They're going to be leaned on
for a lot of different things,
both on and off the ice.
I don't think it really
matters with the new coaching
staff coming in.
We're trying to do a
bunch of different things
than the previous staff--
trying to implement systems
and different teaching
points that we're
trying to accomplish, getting
back to basics of hockey
and habits of you
stopping on pucks,
no more looping, keeping
our sticks down, having
active sticks, and being
relentless on the [INAUDIBLE]..
I think those are
some of the things
that we've really
tried to accomplish.
Everything's new to everybody.
But this senior
group is going to be
leaned in heavily from the
goaltending [INAUDIBLE]..
It's a gift being able
to put on that jersey
and play with this
group of guys.
And everyone kind of
feels that way too.
They like playing for each other
and fighting for one another.
So look forward
to coming together
as a unit with the
overall goal of winning
as many games as possible.
