The North Bay Battalion continues a long march on the road this weekend with a pair of games starting in Guelph on Friday night and finishing up in Owen Sound Saturday.
The Troops are coming off a rough road trip where they dropped three straight and finished off with a humbling 11-2 setback at the hands of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.
Despite the three setbacks assistant coach Adam Dennis is trying to take some positives from a winless western road trip.
“Each and every game we lost in a five-minute span, so that means for a 55-minute span you’re hanging with some pretty good teams,” noted Dennis to the media Wednesday prior to an afternoon practice at Pete Palangio.
In the two one-sided losses, the Battalion allowed both the Saginaw Spirit and Soo Greyhounds to score in bunches. That has to stop in these two road games.
The Spirit scored four times in a 2:21 span on Friday and on Sunday, the Greyhounds took advantage of a questionable five-minute major call that led to four hounds powerplay markers.
“Each and every game we lost in a five-minute span, so that means for a 55-minute span you’re hanging with some pretty good teams,” said Dennis.
The Troops (3-9-0) are back at home on November 1, when they host the Sudbury Wolves.
