Giants have had early adversity but plenty of success too, says Scott Conway

Conway believes that began in the pre-season games in Germany: “I feel like our team is finally coming together.

“I think the first couple of weeks playing against those tough teams in Germany have certainly helped us to get to where we are right now.”

He added: “When you get to play better teams, you are going to have to up your game and your tempo, and I feel like new guys on the team are learning how we are going to play this season.

“I think we have really learned those lesson and converted it into our game against Fife and Dundee.

“We are certainly have some success and we want that to continue throughout the season.”

Conway agreed that the pre-season games are opportunities to see calibre on this season's team.

He remarked: “They are always very useful for Adam [Keefe]. He needed to find out who can play wit who and what line combinations are going to work.

“It has allowed him to see who works well in the penalty or the powerplay.

“After those few games it was down to him making some adjustment on who can play with who on any given night.

“You don't have to be scoring every night, so long as you are contributing to have success, that's is what counts.”

With four games played and four wins, there is a lot of positivity in the Giants squad but there has also been adversity said Conway.

“I think we have had some adversity early on already, what with losing Kawaguchi to injury and also Peter Bates too.

“We also had adversity in the Glasgow game on the first weekend when we went behind early.

“Glasgow played us really tight that game and we are going to have to find a way fight our way back into the game. We did a good job finding that way to win.

“It happened against Dundee last weekend too when they got the early score in the first shift.

“But we stayed with it, we played our style of hockey and got the win. If we keep playing the way Keefer wants us to play I have no doubt that we will have success.”

The start-stop day that was last Saturday meant that it was an odd sort of a game. But what was going on off ice never impacted on the team

He explained: “We are a professional team. We can't let what goes on during a day ahead of a game impact on how we play on the ice that night.

“We are completely focused on that game no matter what. Anything can happen in a game of hockey so its important that you always show up.

“They came out of the locker room ready to go, so we realised that we were in a game right from the start, but we battle pretty well and got the job done.”

Conway agrees that the Giants have already put down a statement of intent in recent games.

He said: “Right now we are in a dynasty era with the Giants. As a team were are pretty competitive in every trophy that we challenge for. That is going to be the same this season too.

“We are very confident that we are going to come out with all the trophies this season.

“Every game matters, no matter what competition it is in. All that you can do is put together your best performance on a night.”

Securing top seed in the Challenge Cup is so important for the Giants.

Conway said: “If you can secure that through being successful in the early stages of the cup you have every chance of making it all the way to the final.

“To honest, if we can get that home ice advantage in the final, it is not going to be a game that we aren't going to lose.”

He added: “We are pretty confident that if we can do well in the Challenge Cup early on that we can make it all the way to final and win the cup.”

Scott is obviously very pleased with how this season has started for him.

“Getting that first goal of the season is always something that you want to get done early,” he remarked.

“That goal is always a good one to get off your chest.”

He added: “I feel really good on the ice right now. There are no issues compared to where I was this time last year with the knee issues.

“Everything is going in the right direction and I am super excited about what this season will hold for me.”

He also believes that the JJ, Conway, Goody line is in hot form.

“When you get to play with two guys on the ice who know what they are doing it really does help,” said Conway.

“We have been together now for four years, so that does have impact on how successful the line is. We all know each others tendencies and we can play to that.

“But I also think that our success is helping to lead the team forward too in the right direction.”