Tonight's game is going to be a tough one, I think the thing Colorado takes out of the game is that they generated better scoring chances overall than the Condors, and just got beat by a hot goalie. I think they'll take confidence from that.
I found there were some very, very enlightening comments made after the game:
After the interviewer asked a question about veteran forwards, Woodcroft shifted the answer towards the d-corps:
"I thought our D corps on a whole was excellent tonight, you look at the three goals we scored the first one came from a point shot deflection, the second one came off an entry where two d-men were up in the rush, the third one came off just a fantastic o-zone shift, and a very instinctual Logan Day found some open ice, and he made it count".
On Caleb Jones and William Lagesson:
"What I like about them is they have poise, they don't panic. We want our players to feel it, we don't want them squeezing their stick. If there's a play to be made, we want them to make it."
Logan Day on how the team plays:
Coaches taught us from game one we have one way to play. It doesn't matter if we're down, up. He wants us playing consistent. Like he says all the time, it gives us a chance to win. So if we're down or tied, we just stick with everything, and it usually works out in our favour."
I think these are things fans like to hear, but for some reason, we always think coaches are teaching players the exact opposite. We always complain about coaches stifling players creativity, or trying to get players to play differently in different situations (turtling). It's important to note that Woodcroft comes from the Babcock school, along with Todd McLellan, and all of them preach a lot of the same things.
Sometimes it's not the coach's fault.