‘We’re going to live in Friday night’s game’

“It’s coming slowly, but surely,” he said. “Things are progressing nicely. We’re not unhappy but I still think we can be a lot better.

“We have a very tight locker room and I don’t think they will ever get ahead of themselves or look at the standings. We know what we want to attain at the end of it and the steps required to get there. That’s what’s important. The success has been great. We live in the moment. We live in the day. We’re going to live in Friday night’s game. That’s what is important to us.”

One area Johnstone would love to see St. Catharines improve is on the power play. The Falcons are 11th overall at 18.5 per cent.

“You want to keep teams from taking liberties on you and trying to run you out of the rink,” Johnstone said. “Our power play isn’t good enough right now. It’s something we’re going to be working on. If the personnel we’re using it’s getting it done, then we have to find the combinations that will work which is always easier said than

You want to keep teams from taking liberties on you and trying to run you out of the rink.”

done.”

The Falcons topped the Corvairs 4-1 in the lone meeting between the teams this season.

“We simplified that game and didn’t turn the puck over much,” Johnstone said. “We kept them from getting odd-man rushes on us and getting up any steam on us and forechecking us hard. That’s going to be the plan again. We just have to get pucks past them and be pushing them rather than them coming down on us. We want to control the puck.”

The Falcons and Corvairs meet again Sunday, Nov. 6 in Caledonia.