Lawson Crowse appreciates his game for hockey club in Utah – Salt Lake Tribune

Columbus, Ohio • When Lawson Crowse wakes up from a nap, he meditates.

The Utah Hockey Club goes through its respiratory techniques and visualizes the type of player who wants to be. Many of this is a positive thinking, said Crowe, and recite mantras that soon become a belief.

It was a little more difficult than late.

“When you go through such stripes, this is the most difficult part trying to produce this feeling,” Crow said. “Hockey is a very mental game and I constantly work on the mental side of it. I’m just trying to stay positive with myself as far as I can. “

Crowse, who is an associated Utah captain, was a strong scratch on Tuesday against Philadelphia’s flyers. He again joined the 3-2 victory over Columbus’s blue jackets and scored his first goal of January 23 to tie the game in the second period.

The 27-year-old was the first to agree with the decision of chief coach Andre Turini when he was told he was lasting earlier in the week. Obviously, it is not something Crowse wanted, but he realized why.

“I stick to a higher level and standard. In the end, they made the decision and this is a consequence of my actions, “Crowe said. “I knew that right away. I told Bear (Tourign) that immediately. Obviously, it’s a pity, but I have to play better. This is for me. “

It was a more slow season in terms of production than what the team expects from Crowe and he expects from himself. The wing has 11 points (seven goals, four assists) to 53 games and one point in the last 14 games for Utah.

Relatively, Crowe finished with 42 points (23 goals, 19 assists) in 81 games last season and scored 20 plus goals in the last three years.

He is also the third highest paid ahead on the list of Utah, earning $ 4.3 million a year after signing a five-year contract with $ 21.5 million with the organization-before this Arizona Coyoti-Presci August 2022. He will be unlimited free An agent in front of Arizona in front of Arizona in front of Arizona-Purge August 2022. He will be an unlimited free agent in front of the 2027-28 season, but there is some legitimate mandate in the deal.

Crowse knows he has to elevate his game.

Before he can start to start his scoring, however, Crowe is focused on doing the little things correctly. He believes that this will make him find the back of the net as he needs his team.

“Just a force. Using my speed using my size using my physicality. Winning battles. Just all these things. To be hard for washers. And then he received photos, ”Crowe said. “Reaching dirty areas and creating opportunities. This is my game and in recent years I have scored many goals. I have to go back. “

The scratching of a member of the leadership group, which is a large part of the team for a bigger part of eight years, can be difficult for a coach. But this is a lesson in accounting for Utah’s room that everyone – regardless of their situation – has to pull my weight to succeed.

“I think at the end of the day there is always a player and the person. You can ask for more than the player, but it’s important to respect the person, “Tourigny said. “Man is not questionable. Their character is not questionable – zero. This is a performance. At the end of the day we are in business and the presentation must be there. There is a certain level of expectation and they must meet it. But this is nothing personal. “

When he scratched Tuesday, Crowse took advantage of the opportunity to look at the game from a different point of view, figuratively and literally while in the stands in Delta Center. He hugged the training lesson and focused on the fields of the game he thought could be improved.

“It’s crazy when you look there – it looks like there’s so much time and when you get on the ice, you feel that there is a person everywhere in you,” Crowe said. “I just focused on things like areas where I was constantly on the ice that I might have had an extra second to do this or that.”

Crowse slides on the third line with Jack McBain and Josh Doan on Thursday in Columbus and The trio produced well.

With Crowse again in the squad, Matthias McChelli was a healthy scratch for the second time this season. The attacker has 17 points (eight goals, nine assists) in 51 games and worked on his protective game, but it was the strange as others were superior to him at night.

“I think this is an internal competition at this point. It’s the beauty of having more depth in front, “Turini said. “There is competition in every role right now and we can go in any way. I think it’s good in a team where you have accountability, depth, internal competition. “

The internal race Tourgin talks about Crouse to dig deeper, but not to be too heavy to itself. It is not a help to opt for the negatives. Instead, Crowse slides with the belief that things will start clicking it consistently. And when they do, the hockey club in Utah will be a better team.

“When you play your best hockey, you don’t think, you just play confidently and everything just comes naturally. Obviously, when you go through sections, you play a little more intense. You need to put yourself in a situation in order to play for free, “Crowe said. “I’m going to continue, I know I can. I believe in this. I just have to do it. “