With full credit to his opponents, Sudbury Wolves head coach Scott Barney figured his players made things a little too easy for the Niagara IceDogs on Sunday afternoon. Article content
While some struggles on offence and a couple of untimely penalties were certainly factors in a 5-1 defeat at the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Barney also pointed to puck management, especially in the defensive zone, as a key area for improvement. Article content Article content
“We had few too many turnovers at crucial moments of the game,” Barney told The Sudbury Star. “Obviously, their first goal and their fourth goal came from that. And when you take a couple of those double-minor penalties, that leads to a lot of power-play time for the other team and they scored two on one of them — that was