Calgary Roughnecks focusing on five minute intervals in race to win

By John Chidley-Hill THE CANADIAN PRESS You can set your watch to the Calgary Roughnecks’ playstyle. In fact, they do. Captain Jesse King and his teammates break every National Lacrosse League game into five-minute sections and focus on winning each one. That strategy has taken them to a do-or-die Game 3 against the Colorado Mammoth on Saturday in the best-of-three Western Conference final. “We always say ‘win the next five minutes.’ Whenever there’s a new five-minute increment, we try and win those five minutes,’’ said King, who leads Calgary with 16 points this post-season. “You break that game down into those increments and make things a little bit less stressful and a little bit easier to focus on.’’ Forward Tyler Pace, who is second on the Roughnecks with 15 points,…

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