HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\nLast week Reign play-by-play voice, Cam McGuire, and analyst Paige Capistran, spoke with Lee about being selected as an All-Star, his season so far, an<\/p>\n
Finding out about being named to the AHL All-Star Classic.
Yeah, I got a text from Rich Seeley. We were playing in Vegas that night and I got back to the locker room after the game and opened my and I saw a text from Seals congratulating me that I had been named to the All-Star game. Obviously being up with the Kings at the time he said if I was still up, I wouldn\u2019t be able to go but if I was back with the Reign I\u2019ll be able to attend, and it will be a fun experience. The first person I reached out to letting them know about being named to the game was probably my fianc\u00e9e, Olivia. She was at the game in Vegas so I told her when I saw her after. After that it was probably my mom which is cool because she lives in Minnesota which isn\u2019t too far from Rockford, so she is planning on coming down for the event. I didn\u2019t really have any plans during the break lined up was maybe thinking of going to Palm Springs with Martin Chromiak and Jakub Dvo\u0159\u00e1k. Sammy Fagemo is going to be there, so we were all looking at a couple Airbnb\u2019s but never committed to anything as I was still trying to figure out where I was going to be.<\/p>\n
What it means to be selected as an All-Star.
It means a lot and it\u2019s rewarding know all the hard work put in to be selected. I think for me it boosts my confidence a little but going out there and knowing that you\u2019re competing as an All-Star. All the hard work put in during the summer, throughout the years, it\u2019s a little ticket that paid of kind of thing.<\/p>\n
Travel out to Rockford, Illinois.
We fly in on Monday so we will get there during the nighttime and then shuttle from Chicago to Rockford which is about 90 miles so once we get to Rockford, I\u2019m sure we will go out for dinner. Then Tuesday is the skills competition and Wednesday is the game. On Thursday we\u2019ll head back to Chicago and I\u2019ll get to spend the day there with family and then on Friday I\u2019ll fly to Abbotsford since we play there Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Competing in skills competition.
They had us fill out a form on which events we would prefer to do. My number one choice was the accuracy shooting and then after that my next selection was the three on o weave.<\/p>\n
On his season so far.
I feel really good. I think if I look back on my previous years, I think I\u2019ve taken steps every year to where I\u2019m at right now. We have a great team with a great group of guys. The biggest thing is going out there and having fun which when you have a team like we do it\u2019s not hard. When I went home this summer, I think I really dialed in my play around the crease and I worked a lot around the net. It was one of those things being strong around the net and finding the loose pucks and kid of developing more of a finishing touch. I felt like last year and the year before I had chances, but they just weren\u2019t going in. You see a guy like Corey Perry how good he is in front of he net so you kind of look at plays like that and see what he does and try to integrate that to your game.<\/p>\n
What he\u2019s learned this season and in his pro career.
Well, I have obviously learned a lot of things. I think the biggest thing when I came from college was adjusting to this type of game style. I remember Nate Thompson took me aside one year and told me like hey this game is different from college. He told me if you want to make it to the NHL you have to do what the coaches and staff want you to do. He also told me you need to be dialed in on getting pucks out, being strong on the puck, and playing physical. I felt like that kind of switched my perspective of looking at things and it helped me a lot during those first years to identify what my role was going to be and try to do that at 100 percent and be better at that every day. I think this summer was as I said really big for the production wise of my game. Like how being able to find the back of the net, having more of a finishing touch and stuff like that. I think it all comes back changing my game kind of from college to here, to a different role.<\/p>\n
What it means to be a consistent player.
It means the details, doing everything consistent like getting the puck out, showing up to every game, puck management, like getting the puck deep when it\u2019s time to get it deep. That\u2019s what this organization has as one of their main things. If you\u2019re consistent, if you can lay at your best or close to your best every night then you are going to find success. Like back to the details if you bear down on those, for example on the wall if you can get the puck out every time then you are consistent. Your work ethic too, if you show up and work every day, you go out there and do what you are supposed to do day in and day out.<\/p>\n
What the team is looking to accomplish in the second half of the season.
Keep playing the way we\u2019ve been playing. We\u2019re playing with a mindset every night and obviously our goal is to finish number one in the division. From there on go on and hopefully win the whole thing. During the second half of the season, you can have lows and you can have highs but trying to stay as consistent as possible. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re there yet where we need to be, but I think we\u2019re on a very good path to get there. I\u2019m more than sure that we will get there and we\u2019ll be ready when playoffs start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Reign collected a 4-3 win over Bakersfield on Sunday heading into the AHL All-Star break leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-171365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}