“I
think it’s preparation, but I think guys got to truly sink into
that,” said Blues forward Dylan Holloway, who ripped off 34 points
(14 goals, 20 assists) the final 25 games of the season. “It’s
not that guys aren’t prepared, per se. Everybody’s working all
summer, everyone’s training hard, but I think more mentally, it’s
kind of like, ‘OK, we start on this day’ like mentally. I think
mentally we’ve got to take it back a little bit and truly like be
mentally prepared for the season because like you said, we got off to
two slow starts. But for me, it’s not like this team doesn’t have
the capability to be an elite team, to be a playoff team. It’s just
kind of finding that consistency more and the start’s huge.”
