1-On-1: with Matt Villalta – TucsonRoadrunners.com

Roadrunners Goaltender Matt Villalta joined Jonathon Schaffer and Kim Cota-Robles on this week’s Happy Hour Show. For the complete conversation and to hear about what color Matt is, download this week’s show HERE. 

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How important is it for you to get these games in with Stauber gone? You guys have 4 quick games and then a break for Thanksgiving here coming up.

I think I’m a goalie who plays better the more games I play. So it’s nice to have the ball and be able to run with it here in this little stretch. It’s nice to get my game back on track, it gives me some time to really feel my game and play the way I want to play. I think it was a good start to this week and we’re just going to keep working hard and carrying the momentum into tonight and tomorrow. We’re going to stick to what we’re doing. I feel like I’ve been working hard, sticking to my process and trusting it and showing up every day with a positive mindset. That’s all you can do, especially when you’re like I was, one and five maybe. Definitely not the start I wanted; you can control the things you can control but not until you show up every day with a good attitude and just showing up to work as hard as you can and trusting in your process. I think the more you trust your process, the results will come on the back end of that.

Over this past weekend it looked like the team had a good give and take with you; where they would get some good opportunities and then you would come up with a big save. What was that like from your point of view?

I think anytime we can get off quickly like we saw in the first game of the weekend, we scored a couple quick ones and you kind of create that cushion early on. It really gives us some momentum and I think from the offensive standpoint, it just wasn’t one guy. Like you said everyone contribute: whether it was making a pass, taking a hit to make a play, and not being selfish with the puck. From my point of view, it’s just fun to watch the guys take it around so well. When they get off to a start like that, you want to obviously keep the puck out of the net and keep it at zero. You know, you never want to get scored on, but just keep their score zero for as long as possible. So yeah, it was nice.

What was the process like of moving from that three-game losing streak to now having a three-game winning streak?

I think in the losing streak, the biggest thing is…