“I thought we were fine, but when you’re in close games, you’ve got to find another level,” Huska said of the 2-0 defeat that dropped Calgary to 1-1-0 on its current road swing. “That’s, to me, what it looked like from the bench, where you have a chance to grab a game when it’s close, and we weren’t able to do that,<\/p>\n
“Whether that’s scoring a goal, or making a better decision with the puck that led to their goal that they scored 5-on-5, those are the little things that I think were the difference in the game.”<\/p>\n
The frustration of Saturday’s setback\u00a0mirrored the last time Calgary suffered a shutout defeat – a 1-0 OT loss Nov. 30 at Carolina – and as the calendar flips to March, so too comes an opportunity to make amends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For captain Mikael Backlund, who had four shot attempts and a block over 16:29 of work Saturday, the key against the Ducks starts with consistency.<\/p>\n
“Close game, but I didn’t think we played our best game,” Backlund said of the L.A. loss. “Too up and down just throughout the game, too inconsistent.<\/p>\n
“We know we can play better.”<\/p>\n
A win in Anaheim would bring four of six points on the trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And as the March schedule kicks into gear in earnest,\u00a0that\u00a0might just be something to build upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I thought we were fine, but when you’re in close games, you’ve got to find another level,” Huska…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-506995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}