IT IS a strange thing confidence. It is not like a tap that you can turn on and off. It is hard to explain where it comes from or the reason why it deserts you.

It is kind of like a momentum that builds, when things aren’t going well and you aren’t really too sure well and everything becomes a chore. Then all of a sudden without really knowing why it can just turn around and all of a sudden everything is working better.

You can notice it when you are on the ice but I think you definitely notice around training and in the locker room there is definitely a different atmosphere.

It becomes tough, all of a sudden every referee decision feels like it is against you and every bounce of a puck feels like it is going the wrong way.

It just takes one win and there is a change in morale and we definitely notice that at the moment there is a good atmosphere in the room.

There are definitely what you call ‘clutch players’ who you look to in particularly difficult situations. Jan Kostal seems to pop up time and time again with big goals and then there are other players, maybe this weekend it was Stevie Lyle in goal, and there are players that you rely on.

They have been in every situation before so they know what is expected of them and it is just that calmness, being able to execute what they need to and when there is pressure on them.

I have had times where everyone has been asked to stay and we have maybe gone for a social outing together to try and resolve things.

This time I think we had a particularly bad game against Peterborough at home and we had team meeting and then a talk without Ryan there.

Sometimes that is somewhere where players who maybe don’t talk that much when we are in the locker room all together had the opportunity to say anything that they thought would help and it appeared to help us turn things around a bit.

We all knew what was going wrong and we needed to come together as a group. You’re not talking because the head coach is not there and there is stuff that people don’t want to say in front of him, it’s more to emphasise that if we want to turn things around it has got to be that group of people to do it.

Ryan does a great job but we are the ones on the ice and we have to do it ourselves.