Brayden McNabb<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cUtah was a team that, they always kind of wanted to make the extra play. It\u2019s going to have challenges. But we did a pretty good job being positionally sound and being good in the neutral zone and kind of limiting their speed coming into the zone.\u201d<\/p>\nEichel echoed that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as the series went on, we started to make it harder on them to create and generate from the rush, and credit to the guys on Utah, I thought they created a lot and they gave us a handful in terms of our back pressure and coming back and knowing who had who,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have a lot of moving parts. They pull up a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at that Anaheim team, they make a lot of plays off the rush as well. So, you know, they\u2019re a fast team. They\u2019re always trying to make plays through you and around you. I think having played Utah, I think (having) improved throughout the series in terms of maybe some of our deep defensive responsibilities in that sense, we should be able to take from that a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stone cautioned that every team and series is different, and the Golden Knights can\u2019t take for granted that their success against the Mammoth will repeat against the Ducks. Anaheim went 3-0-0 against Vegas in the regular season. Each game was 4-3. Two went to overtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, they have some skill, some speed, some similarities to Utah, but I think they\u2019re a little bit bigger, so that\u2019s maybe a little different challenge for us,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got some big skill up front that might pose a bit of a challenge, but they\u2019re very good off the rush with that speed and skill, so that\u2019s maybe a little similarity to Utah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won Games 3 and 4 5-4 in overtime, so you still want to do a better job of limiting goals against. But I thought the last game was a lot better. We didn\u2019t give up a ton off the rush, didn\u2019t give up a ton in zone. I think their goal went off one of our (defensemen\u2019s) stick and slithered through. It was an unlucky bounce for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I think we\u2019ve been stressing that going in, but it\u2019s a new series. We\u2019ve got to prep that way too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slowing the Mammoth in the neutral zone was an emphasis for the Golden Knights in the first round,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-648503","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\/648503","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=648503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}