MORNING SKATE NOTES<\/p>\n
The Mammoth held an optional morning skate on Wednesday.
\nHead coach Andr\u00e9 Tourigny said that there are no lineup changes going into tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
No Place Like Home<\/p>\n
The Mammoth have had a strong start to 2026 and a big chunk of that has been on the team\u2019s seven-game homestand. Through the first six games, Utah is 5-0-1, and has outscored its opponents 23-11. Tourigny discussed being consistent and what the team has done to play well during this stretch.<\/p>\n
“If you look at our homestand, we’ve played direct hockey, predictable, we were connected,\u201d Tourigny explained. \u201cWe’re consistent in our decisions with the puck, with the speed, the way we attack the net.\u201d<\/p>\n
With this recent success, the team is focused on continuing the hard work from this homestand.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s either a good stretch or it\u2019s who you are,\u201d Tourigny continued. \u201cI think what we want, we want to be, that\u2019s who we want to be. That doesn\u2019t guarantee the result. I\u2019m not talking about results. I\u2019m talking about the way we play. We want to play that way and wake up tomorrow morning and have the pride of, \u2018hey ok, we\u2019ve been consistent. We played that way and we kept going.\u2019 So that\u2019s what\u2019s important for us is we don\u2019t want to be one and done. We want to be consistent, take a lot of pride, know who we are, and keep being that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Practice, Practice, Practice<\/p>\n
The Mammoth had two-straight practice days leading into today\u2019s game. It was a rare opportunity to work on areas of the team\u2019s game without the pressure of a game day. It also allowed the group to take some time to rest leading into the final stretch before the Olympic Break.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the group worked on various elements including their neutral zone play. On Tuesday, the focus shifted to working on 4-on-3 and 5-on-3 situations. Following Tuesday\u2019s practice, forward Jack McBain discussed this mini break in game action for the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to do a lot,\u201d McBain said on Tuesday. \u201cI think it\u2019s not often in the season with the condensed schedule where you get a couple days to practice and work on some things. I think we\u2019ve been playing some really good hockey and we\u2019re just fine tuning details for our game and get that much better. There\u2019s been a bunch of stuff we\u2019ve been touching on and it\u2019s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORNING SKATE NOTES The Mammoth held an optional morning skate on Wednesday. Head coach Andr\u00e9 Tourigny said that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-428376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}