We know what the end result is (what’s desired). But if you don’t win a championship while doing that, I don’t think it matters. I don’t think people remember that, unless you’re looking at a stat book, you may see that. “I can’t tell you who the last great team was to be the best in the regular season. “If anything, we’re talking about not letting that get into our heads too much,” said Coyle of the records. The B’s did not want to be a regular-season wonder. But there’s are also the wins record of 62 held by the 1995-96 Red Wings and the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning, neither of whom won the Stanley Cup, by the way. One carrot that the B’s are not dangling in front of themselves is catching the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, who hold the record for most points with 133.īeating that mark would come with a couple of asterisks in that the Habs did that in an 80-game schedule and that it was in the pre-overtime era when the second OT point was not available. We just worry about where we’re headed and how we think we have to get there.” But we don’t analyze the mathematics of it. We don’t think ‘we can go 5-15 and probably finish first.’ I don’t know if that’s true, though it’s not far from the truth, probably. We don’t ever talk about what you guys are asking about. We continually talk about areas we need to get better at. I don’t remember where we were, but he said ‘It’s amazing how hard these guys play,’ knowing what we all are talking about right now. And (assistant coach) Joe Sacco said it best when we were on the road. “We’ve had a fairly comfortable lead for a while. “We don’t change what our outlook has been,” said Montgomery. “It’s such a great league that there’s always different ways to be able to create challenges that we think is going to help us in the long-term,” said Montgomery, whose team has 20 games left.īut while the coaching staff can institute all sorts of mental gymnastics, the team’s culture and ethos are what makes it all work. They treated the game in Vancouver as Game 7 of a series and then they were faced with playing Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the next “series” on one day of rest. After the B’s won the first two games in Seattle and Vancouver to win the imagined series, the psychology was changed. But if we can do that internally, I think that’s going to help.”Ĭoach Jim Montgomery said the B’s took that three-game playoff series mentality at the start of the most recent trip. It’s hard to mimic at times during the year. You want to make sure we’re pressured and we’re prepping for playoffs. You don’t want to get lackadaisical when you’re up in the standings. You think to yourself ‘This is a must-win game. It keeps you mentally in there, mentally focused. It gets your mind in the right place so it’s not just another game in Seattle, or a back-to-back in Calgary and Edmonton. “I think you can incorporate little games and challenges like that. And we can use those kind of challenges to make sure we’re focused in and getting the job done. We’ve got to win at least two of them,’ kind of like a playoff series. We can say ‘Hey, these next three games coming up. “You want to always be challenged, right? We can create little challenges within our season. It definitely is,” said Charlie Coyle after Monday’s practice. But in a profession for which competition is the lifeblood, it does present a challenge. The 49-8-5 B’s have given signs that that dynamic will not throw them off course. While the B’s still need to fine-tune their game – the struggling power play is the first thing that comes to mind – it doesn’t appear that they will have the benefit of meaningful competition in the standings to push them along.
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