Canes gearing up for a busy month

By Lethbridge Herald on October 31, 2024.

Herald FILe photo by JUSTIN SEWARD Lethbridge Hurricanes Trae Johnson attempts to cut around the check of Will Subject of the Vancouver Giants during WHL action atÊVisitLethbridge.comÊArena last month. The Canes play nine of their 12 games on the road in November.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

After  a lighter schedule of mostly just weekend games so far this season, the Lethbridge Hurricanes are gearing up for what will be a heavy November.

The Canes play 12 games in the month, nine of which are on the road.

Canes assistant coach Ryan Aasman spoke about how the more practice time early on with lighter schedule will help with the grind of the upcoming month.

“I hope our conditioning helps out early on where we can maintain that, especially because your practice time is going go down, your time in the gym’s going to go down,” said Aasman.

“So I hope that when we’re on the ice for a little bit shorter times that the pace stays up and we’re able to keep our level of conditioning up.”

Aasman had hoped the players are eating well, properly resting and spending more gym time on their own.

 “So that they’re staying with the competitive advantage and on top of their fitness,” said Aasman.

“If our guys can keep being professionals like they have been and keep their compete levels up, we’ll make the most of our road games.”

The Hurricanes will strive to improve their road record as it sits at 1-3 heading into the month.

“I think part of going on the road is we got to get used to playing on the road again, we’ve played so many games at home, and it’s a certain brand,” said Aasman.

“It’s managing the game with puck decisions that are in tight and making the most of it when you get the game to open up.”

Aasman said the best time with success is not worrying about how to fail.

“You might be down in these games and then as a group you go through the adversity together and you find ways to win,” said Aasman.

“I think we’ve done that already this year and now you learn how to do (it) on the road a little bit more.”

Captain Noah Chadwick says it’s huge, when asked about getting out on the road.

“I think we got to learn how to win on the road,” said Chadwick.

“It’s so important that we’re able to win games on the road and all those points count the same, right, so we want them and it’s just going to help us going  forward.”

The Canes will  travel to Saskatchewan twice, Manitoba mixed in on one of those trips, and to the US over the course of this month.

“I think that’s just an opportunity for us to kind of have a measuring stick, but also to just experience it, and to grow and get better.  We need to really understand like there’s not time to kind of feel it out,” said Chadwick.

The first road trip is from Nov. 8-11 in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the second one will go between Nov. 20-30 in the U.S. and Saskatchewan with days off in between.

The Canes will play in Red Deer on Saturday as well.