MORNING SKATE NOTES<\/p>\n
Head coach Andr\u00e9 Tourigny shared he believes the lineup will be the same unless center Kevin Stenlund is unable to play.<\/p>\n
Focus on the Ducks<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a quick turnaround for the Mammoth who are on the second half of a back-to-back after beating the Vegas Golden Knights last night, 4-0. One area of focus for tonight\u2019s game will be tightening up Utah\u2019s defensive game. Although Vejmelka\u2019s saves kept Vegas off the board completely, it\u2019s important for the Mammoth to be stinger tonight against the top team in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll need to be a little bit more stingy defensively,\u201d Tourigny explained. \u201cWe\u2019ll take the win (against Vegas) no doubt about it, but (Karel Vejmelka) had to come up (with big saves). So, try to help him a little bit more and it goes with the style of game of Anaheim. They can produce a lot of goals, they have a lot of talent, they are extremely involved in the play, in the forecheck, in the o-zone. They don\u2019t sit at the blue line much. We\u2019ll need to be really alert defensively in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snapping the Skid<\/p>\n
After Utah lost four straight games from Mar. 9-14, the Mammoth responded with two strong wins this week. After a 6-3 win over the second-best team in the NHL, the Dallas Stars, and a 4-0 win over the Golden Knights, the team is learning how to bounce back quicker.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always want to get out of your slum as quick as possible, but we got better than we were in the past,\u201d Tourigny shared. \u201cI think it\u2019s maturity, owning your confidence, and as well being able to focus on what you can control and (not) focusing on the last game, the last two games, the last three games, what\u2019s going wrong or stuff like that, and being able to come back and (focus) on what you can control, how you play and your performance. That brings consistency and that\u2019s what we need to do. I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re there yet but we\u2019re better than we were.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORNING SKATE NOTES Head coach Andr\u00e9 Tourigny shared he believes the lineup will be the same unless center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-228895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228895","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=228895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}