The Weyburn Red Wings need to overcome a mental hurdle to prepare for a road trip to the Battlefords Friday and Melfort on Saturday after two losses this past weekend.
The Wings will need to find and keep that momentum as they prepare to meet rival Estevan on Remembrance Day.
The Weyburn Red Wings will take on the Bruins for their first meeting of the season at Crescent Point Place at 3 p.m.
Because November 11 is Remembrance Day, the Red Wings are planning a few commemorative events prior to the game. And the Wings hope to make a Remembrance Day game an annual event.
Last weekend, the Klippers shut out the Wings in a 7-0 loss on home ice.
Red Wings Coach Bryce Thoma said the play on the ice wasn't indicative of the score.
"It was one of those games where you hope you only have one a year. It seemed the harder we played, the worse it got," he said. "We couldn't do anything right."
Sunday's game against the Battlefords North Stars wasn't much better for the Wings losing 3-2 in a shoot-out.
Thoma said it was a frustrating game, the Wings played well from start to finish, but couldn't pull out a win.
"We just keep finding new ways to lose hockey games," he said.
Josh Lees started the scoring for the Wings in the second period from Matt Eng and Brian Farkas, with Ty McLean adding the second goal assisted by Curtis Piecowye and Shain Scheshcuk.
In the shoot out, Kyle Olenuik, McLean and Sam Williams were all denied.
The team is being haunted by players' past seasons. The Wings are pulling up the rear in league standings with a 5-10-0-1 ledger.
Thoma said last season some of the players had bad years on the teams they came from.
"They didn't have success, and when that happens, you tend to focus on finding ways to lose instead of how to be successful. At the end of the day, it's not the other team that beats us. We beat ourselves."
