HIS players may not think so just yet, but Ryan Aldridge is convinced Leeds Knights’ play-off final heartache can become a positive in terms of the team’s long-term future.
It is often said that more can be learned from defeat than winning, something the Knights’ head coach believes will eventually be the case with his team after they were denied in their quest for a back-to-back NIHL National league and play-off double. The agony of the shoot-out was how Leeds found themselves second-best against Peterborough Phantoms at a packed SkyDome Arena on Sunday night, edged out 4-3.
“It’s a really strange thing to say, but for this group and the age of this group, it’s probably a positive in a really messed up way to have lost on Sunday,” said Aldridge. “I think we need to learn how to play in those situations. I think we looked tired and I think we were tired because our emotions were high across the whole weekend. “Anxiety, stress, whatever it might be - I think it drained us and I think it did the same last year, but we just found a way to get through it that time.
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