{"id":150924,"date":"2025-01-29T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=150924"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T01:21:50","slug":"this-week-in-nchc-hockey-arizona-state-taking-lessons-from-each-game-even-though-sun-devils-know-were-really-good-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2025\/01\/29\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-arizona-state-taking-lessons-from-each-game-even-though-sun-devils-know-were-really-good-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Arizona State taking lessons from each game even though Sun Devils &#8216;know we\u2019re really good&#8217; this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150925\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu-696x587.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gordon_court_asu-498x420.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cole Gordon and Sam Court celebrate a goal last weekend against Colorado College (photo: Sun Devil Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ll often hear coaches and athletes say they learn more from losses than they do from wins.<\/p>\n<p>To hear Arizona State coach Greg Powers say it during his team\u2019s press conference Tuesday, the Sun Devils took important lessons from the back end of a split last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>ASU had won five of its last six games heading into the then 11th-ranked Sun Devils\u2019 home series with a Colorado College team that had been going in the opposite direction, losing five of the Tigers\u2019 last six. That run continued Friday when three second-period goals helped ASU to a 4-1 win, but on Saturday, the Sun Devils let a 4-1 lead slip before falling 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to flush it, obviously, but it\u2019s not something that we can forget,\u201d Powers said. \u201cWhen something like that happens, and to be honest, we probably didn\u2019t deserve to be up 4-1, I thought CC played a better game Saturday, and credit to them for not going away, and doing what they did. I think it speaks a lot about their character and their resolve, trying to course-correct where they\u2019re at in their season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a decision: We can let that get the train off the tracks, which I know it\u2019s not going to, or we can let things like that happen and learn from it and grow from it and make sure it doesn\u2019t ever happen again, and that\u2019s exactly what we plan on doing with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASU had revenge on its mind Friday, having fallen twice on the road against CC earlier this season. In the teams\u2019 third meeting, the Sun Devils got goals from four different skaters. Beating the No. 19 Tigers that night also gave ASU its seventh straight win over a ranked opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s rematch looked to be going in a similar direction, as two goals apiece from Ryan Kirwan and Charlie Schoen gave ASU a three-goal cushion with under 14 minutes to go. But after CC\u2019s Noah Laba cut into the deficit at 6:24, Chase McLane made it 4-3 less than a minute later, and it was a different game. Max Burkholder tied it at 11:28 before Drew Montgomery netted the eventual winner at 14:37.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing you can do in practice to defend leads,\u201d Powers said Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s a mindset and a killer instinct, and it\u2019s something that this team has not perfected yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the good news is we know we\u2019re really good and we know we\u2019re going to be out in front quite a bit, and we have all year, but it\u2019s developing that killer instinct to go out and end games, and extend and continue to skate and continue to defend, kill plays and do everything the right way when other teams have to press and they\u2019re down, and we just didn\u2019t do that Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can preach mindset. You can work on it and you can develop it, absolutely. They have it in them. We\u2019ve done it. We did it against North Dakota on Friday night (a 4-1 home win Jan. 10), we did it against Cornell (a 4-0 home win Jan. 4), we certainly did it against Denver at Denver (a road sweep in November). They have it in them, they\u2019ve proven they can do it, they just have to do it down the stretch, because it\u2019s an important stretch for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sun Devils now prepare for a road trip to NCHC basement-dweller Miami. ASU should be heavily favored against a RedHawks team that has lost its last 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, though, Powers is taking nothing for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t focus on them, we focus on us,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s enough there to focus on after what we pi$$ed away on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll often hear coaches and athletes say they learn more from losses than they do from wins. 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