COACH STAN – This Weekends Road to NSW …
Today we head off to Newcastle to play the North Stars on Saturday and then to Sydney to face the Bears on Sunday, in what are always one of our toughest road trips.
Having just come off a 3 game winning streak, this week’s break certainly came at a bad time for us, but now it’s time to focus on the task at hand … and that is the 6 very valuable points up for grabs.
We will travel with almost a full squad and we are now in a position where we know who ever we play and wherever we play, we will be very competitive.
I have a lot of belief in the depth of our Thunder squad, we are really coming together as a team and collectively we know that if we want to play finals this season we have to keep collecting points in every series we play and this is a real series.
We play the North Stars 3 times in our next 4 games with both of us coming of winning streaks and fighting for finals positions after bad starts to the season … so I expect 3 hard fought battles.
All of our imports are really combining well and our second line led by Andy Cox is putting up solid numbers. As much as the North Stars and the Bears will be tough opposition for us, I know we will be tough opposition for them.
I tip both games this weekend will be decided by power plays and penalty kills … 2 areas that we have been working very hard at improving.
As always, I thank all Thunder supporters for your well wishes and I can assure you we will be doing our very best on the ice this weekend to bring home the 6 points.