BOX SCORE<\/a><\/p>\nPostgame reactions from Andrew Lord and Taylor Ward.<\/p>\n
Lord\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shutting things down defensively
Yeah, the first 40 was our best this season. For sure. Everyone was skating. Puck management was there. I thought we made some more plays tonight, which was good to see. I thought we were direct enough as the game went along and got got to the goalie\u2019s eyes, which was great. So, you know, third, we took our foot off the gas a little bit, but all in all, a good win and a good weekend.<\/p>\n
Handling Abbotsford\u2019s third period push
Yeah, good enough. Obviously, you want to stay relentless the whole time, but little bit of human nature probably, and credit to them, you know, defending chance for a reason, they forecheck really hard, and they get in and, you know, they went east west, they\u2019re buying the net, and then found the D on the backside, which was, you know, difficult to defend, but I thought, you know, down the stretch, late that last five, six minutes, we manage it pretty well. Didn\u2019t give up too much. So good way to close it.<\/p>\n
Scoring four unanswered goals\u00a0
Yeah, even, even, you know, the goal against, I thought, you know, maybe against the run of the play a little bit. No big deal. I thought we were really solid out of the gates, you know, I thought all four lines contributed Well, playing the right way. I thought our D was solid to obviously always good goal tending too. So, yeah, I was a, you know, we were hard to play against tonight. That\u2019s hopefully gonna be our identity, night in and night out.<\/p>\n
Killing off a 5-on-3 in the second period
Yeah, that\u2019s a that\u2019s a big turning point. We had 3d man out there too, with hixie getting out of the box from the four on three situation. So for them to do it sort of with without our normal two forwards out there made it even harder. But yeah, the guys laid it on the line. I would I probably haven\u2019t counted it up yet, but I would say that was probably our most blocked shots of the year, and especially in that sequence. So impressive from an individual standpoint.<\/p>\n
Cole Guttman getting his first goal of the season
Yeah, he\u2019s been getting better every day, getting more comfortable with his line mates, with the systems. Obviously, Everything\u2019s new. It\u2019s taking a little bit of time, but you can see now he\u2019s really starting to go, moving his feet, being dynamic. Great play from Thomas to him in the low slot there on that first one, that was a pretty goal, and he was close on a couple others.<\/p>\n
Taylor Ward\u2019s weekend performance\u00a0
Yeah, he\u2019s been rock solid in all three zones, straight along the walls, in our own zone, defends, well, you know, out late game situations, five on six, and then offensively, the shots obviously lethal. You know, he\u2019s got a great release, and he\u2019s big and heavy down below the topsail circle, so he\u2019s doing a lot for us. Really good leader as well.<\/p>\n
Carrying success into next weekend\u00a0
eah, just stay consistent. Be pros about it. We got to, you know, stick to our process. Get better every day, all the cliches. And you know, Wednesday\u2019s gonna be a tough game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ward<\/p>\n
Starting off five-game road trip with a pair of wins
Yeah, I thought it was really good both games, we got the lead, and then we we closed it out there in the third period in both games, which is really good to see, especially early on in the season and on the road. So yeah, really happy with the first couple on the road, and now we\u2019re off to Vegas.<\/p>\n
On personal success and playing close to home
Yeah, it\u2019s always fun coming back here. I had some family in the stands, and it\u2019s always good coming back to BC. So, yeah, it\u2019s been good start so far. And just gonna try to keep it rolling.<\/p>\n
Holding off Abbotsford\u2019s third period push
Yeah I mean, we knew they were going to come out hard in the third period, which they did, and credit to them, they came out really hard in the first three four minutes and scored one. But I think that woke us up a little bit. And, you know, we just got back to our game and playing a bit simple and a bit stronger, and we were able to close it out again. So all good things.<\/p>\n
Looking at the penalty kill
Absolutely our kill was great today. Our D men were really, really good today, I thought. And we had, yeah, you\u2019re right. I don\u2019t know, four or five, six block shops, block shots on that PK. So that\u2019s huge. That\u2019s just guys buying in, and guys being team guys and sacrificing their bodies, and that\u2019s what we need, and we got it tonight and that\u2019s why we won.<\/p>\n
On his goal
Yeah, the puck got to me quick there, and I didn\u2019t get a lot of lot of wood on it, but it felt like the puck took forever to get to the net. But just lucky, it went in, and we\u2019ll take it, I guess.<\/p>\n
Carrying momentum into next week
I think we just learned from what we did good here this weekend, and make a couple corrections. And, you know, I think for the most part, we did, we played some some good road hockey. So just, you know, learn from that and put that in the bank and carry it forward.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Reign (4-1-1-0) defeated the Abbotsford Canucks (2-4-0-0) Sunday afternoon by a final score of 5-2 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-254150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}