Carlyle said the Ducks held a team meeting last week to discuss their woes and emerged with determination to turn their season around. They decided, “that what was taking place on the ice wasn’t good enough, was nowhere near what we’re capable of. And we sat down and did a little bit of a dissecting of what needed to improve,” he said. The coaches showed videos of various situations and discussed what had been lacking, including the resolve to be first on the forecheck and win board battles. The one-on-one battles that are taking place on the ice, we were not winning enough of them and now we’re winning our fair share of them in the last four, five games,” he said.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 06, 2018 21:32 UTC