Hurricanes experience multiple team building moments on road trip

By Lethbridge Herald on November 25, 2025.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

The Lethbridge Hurricanes have returned from a respectable two-week,seven-game road trip, six of which were in the B.C. Division, with a 3-4 record in what was considered a team building trek.

“Yeah, gotta be happy with the results for sure,” said Ryan Aasman, Hurricanes assistant coach.

“I thought all-in-all the effort was really good throughout. We had contributing efforts from a lot of guys throughout it, and guys picked each other up and I thought it was a really good team builder trip.”

The trip was an opportunity for the players to taste what the league is about.

“It’s a great example of how hard every single night is and the travel that comes with it,” said Aasman.

Aasman spoke about how the special teams went on the trip.

“I think the penalty kill’s been a work in progress,” said Aasman.

“When you deal with 15 first year players that are all coming from lower levels, they all think that they’re offensive powerplay guys. For us we had a lot of guys that have to learn how to change their identity up a little bit or take pride in a different role. And I think  that we have some guys that are striving towards that.”

The Hurricanes did not get a whole lot of powerplays during the trip.

“Going into Prince George, we had nine powerplay attempts in five games (and) two of those were under 10 seconds long,” said Aasman.

“We went 2-for-5 last game and looked like we were hungry at times and found two other goals along the trip when a lot of  the nights we only had one or two opportunities.”

Aasman did admit the Canes did take some penalties that came as timely mistakes.

“You get that with a younger group,” said Aasman.

“At some point here we gotta find ways for guys to understand that they are bad timely penalties and we gotta get those out of the game.”

Forward Luke Cozens agreed that discipline needs to be worked on after the trip.

“I think that’s something that we heard a lot throughout our dressing room,” said Cozens.

“We know that we can’t be taking some of the penalties that we did. They might’ve cost us a couple games.”

The two-week trip  was chance for the younger players to come together.

“You got so many young guys in that room that go to school together,” said Aasman.

“But also you want them to grow over the next few years together. So, that was always fun to watch the guys hang out in different ways and whether you’re do team bonding events, or on the bus and  in  the hotels, I think that was really important.”

Forward Owen Berge wants to see the team have better starts after the road trip.

“We gotta be ready to go off the start,” said Berge.

“There’s too many games where we let in too many goals off the start and we find (ourselves) chasing.”

Despite the start struggles, Berge thought the Canes were rolling all four lines.

“We were able to create a lot of scoring chances off the rush and I thought there was a lot of good things offensively that we can build off (of) as a young team,” said Berge.

Cozens thought it was huge for the team to take three of the six games in B.C.

“I think we beat some pretty respectable teams across the league,” said Cozens.

“It’s just gonna keep us moving in an upward direction.”

The Hurricanes play their first home game in three weeks on Friday when they host the Moose Jaw Warriors at 7 p.m.