Randy Carlyle was upset following his team's lousy start to the 2018 playoffs, but he doesn't want his guys dwelling on it. The Ducks coach also isn't looking for his players to simply erase Game 1 from their memories.
Another game awaits Saturday at Honda Center, and it's not a stretch to call it the most pivotal of the season. A defeat would send the Ducks to San Jose down 2-0 n the first-round series, with Games 3 and 4 to follow on hostile ground.
"Momentum can change at any time," said defenseman Josh Manson. "You look at the past games that we've had in playoff series where we're down 3-nothing and all of a sudden we get one, and we get two and we get three.