I caught up with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton head coach Clark Donatelli one-on-one Wednesday to talk about his team at the midway point of the season.
Donatelli is in his second full season coaching the AHL Penguins, after being promoted to replace Mike Sullivan on Dec. 23, 2015. Donatelli was previously head coach of the Wheeling Nailers, a position he held since 2011.
We spoke about the different players who have stood out to him, what made the team so successful in the first half of the season, and more.
Q: Wilkes-Barre is in a good position at the midway point of the season, and they've been heating up even more lately. What are the team's strengths that made them so successful in the first half?
A: "Well, I think obviously we had a really good start, we started out 12-2. You know, we talk about the same things as Pittsburgh, playing the right way. In that little bit of a streak, there were four or five games that could have gone either way. Our big thing is whether we're winning a lot or losing, whatever streak we're on, we try to approach the next game the same way, whether we won or we lost the game before it. We can't go back, we can only control what we can control and that's going to be the next game ahead of us. We're going to go out there and execute our game plan. We're going to compete, and execute, and be consistent in our play. This is the standard of how our guys have to play, and usually if we play that way, we usually have success in the win column."
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