Great Day On the Ice

This whole week our focus has been to practice hard, leave everything on the ice to prepare ourselves for this weekend. We've been going hard in every drill, and we've been doing a lot of battle drills. We all understand that this is a point in the season where one mistake can send a team home. I think today, we had the best practice as a team since I've been here. It was a lot of fun. Guys were flying, and we were all completely focused. Personally, I just feel myself getting better every day, and I think I had a really good practice. I know a lot of people say they want to get better every day and say they can feel themselves getting better every day, but I don't think everyone who says those things is actually improving. I know I am. I can feel it. Yesterday, in the one-on-one drill we've been doing a lot, no one beat me, and my gap control was perfect. Today, we did the paint drill, where we work on defensive coverage and staying with your man, and I did really well. Coach came up to me after and said he wishes he filmed me when I first got here and compared it to what he saw today. He said it's unbelievable how much I've improved. All these things are good to hear, especially from a coach who doesn't dish out positive feedback very often. And it's just making me more confident at the right time of the year. I feel confident that I can make a big difference here coming up in the playoffs, and I'm so excited to see what happens. This is a fun time of the year. The stakes are high, and we have to play our best every night. I'm ready to continue having a really good week of practice, and I'm ready to lay it on the line for the team this weekend.