Soo Greyhounds coach John Dean emphasizes the importance of staying true to their identity as they prepare to face the Saginaw Spirit in the Western Conference semifinals. Both teams enter the series after sweeping their opponents in the opening round.
As the Ontario Hockey League playoffs approached, Soo Greyhounds coach John Dean routinely said that the goal for the team was to “stick to our identity.”
“ a good offensive team and we want to limit their chances against,” Dean added. “Other than that, we’re going to stick to our identity.”Despite the series being over in four games, Dean said he felt the Guelph Storm “did us a big favour” in the opening round of the playoffs. Dean said that, in addition to increasing their pace of play in the sweep of the Storm, physicality and compete level from the Greyhounds also impressed him through the series.The series is a meeting between the two top teams in the OHL’s West Division through regular season play. The Spirit won the division title with the Greyhounds placing second, seven points back of the division leader.
As much as the teams were tight throughout much of the season, Deans says the regular season means nothing now as the series kicks off. Defensively, Dean credited the Greyhounds top four of Caeden Carlisle, Andrew Gibson, Arttu Karki, and Kirill Kudryavtsev.
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