Sheffield Steelers v Cardiff Devils - Challenge Cup semi-final preview - video Dailymotion

Sheffield Steelers' head coach Aaron Fox looks ahead to his team's Challenge Cup semi-final first leg agaisnt Cardiff Devils on Wednesday, February 5

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00:00How much confidence are you going to take into this game from Sunday?

00:14Well we know it's a new game, we know that they're going to come motivated, two leg semi-final

00:20here, there's a lot to play for and we know that if we're ready to play we're a really

00:28good hockey team and the way we've played lately has been a lot better, so I'm pretty

00:34confident that if our group's ready to play and do those little things that we've been

00:38doing lately, well it should be a good game.

00:40Across the whole weekend, two good wins, always difficult going into Glasgow, is that kind

00:43of like the template for how you have to play from here on in, regardless of whether it's

00:46a court-leading play-off?

00:47Yeah, I think you've got to find a way to play 60 minutes, I don't think maybe the start

00:56in Glasgow was as bad that we were down 2-0, I didn't think we were bad in that hockey

01:00game at any point, but we also know that when we're at our best we're very, very good and

01:07when we're not at the races we're pretty average, so it's about finding that high level of compete

01:15and energy for 60 minutes and can't take moments off, can't take periods off, and we're at

01:21the end of the season with a little over two months left in the season here, so we know

01:24how important and crucial this time is for us.

01:28The Challenge Cup might be seen by some as the lesser trophy out of the three that you

01:32go for each year, but I imagine giving you one at twice, it means quite a lot to you,

01:36you'd be as determined to retain it as much as anything else?

01:39You know what, it's an interesting one because for me it's that first trophy available, the

01:44season's long, it's a grind, it's a lot of hockey in a short amount of time, we've played

01:5050 some plus games right now, so it's also kind of like that little bit of a light at

01:55the end of the tunnel to be able to win something during the season that's been a grind and

02:02so long, so I kind of view it as an opportunity to get something in the bank and take it seriously,

02:08and a trophy's a trophy for us right now, we want to be in it for all of them as long

02:15as we possibly can and this is one of those opportunities that we've got to be ready for.

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