The Everett Silvertips had a brief team meeting Monday, but that was it for team activities after playing three games in three nights.
Head coach Kevin Constantine said the team wasn’t as sharp during Sunday’s 3-1 win at Spokane as the previous two games, but that was to be expected.
“The passes missed at times,” he said. “Guys were running into each other every once in a while. The stick-handling, we were fumbling the puck a little bit. It was the most fatigued as you figured it would be based on three games in three nights… We covered a lot of ground too in doing it.”
One player who was especially sharp was goaltender Carter Hart. The 17-year-old took one period to settle into the game Saturday at Seattle, but was solid from the opening faceoff at Spokane. He finished with 29 saves and was named the Player of the Game by the coaching staff.
“I thought in Spokane he was sharp from the very beginning and was really crisp,” Constantine said. “We needed that just because the rest of the guys lacked a little bit of normal energy.”
The Tips will play just their second Tuesday game of the year this week when they play host to the Regina Pats at Xfinity Arena beginning at 7. Everett goes back on the road Friday for its final game against Vancouver, and then welcomes the T-Birds to Xfinity on Saturday.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day features a matinee home game against Saskatoon before the Tips make their second eastern swing by stopping in Kamloops (Wednesday) and continuing on to Edmonton (Friday) and Red Deer (Saturday).
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