The only time Glenn Clark has been to Mohegan Sun Arena, there was a basketball tournament going on, requiring the first-year New England Wolves head coach to get only a brief glimpse of the venue from up near the rafters.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what the building is like when the crowd is in there, the hum of the crowd,” said Clark in a conference call this week. “We were hired in June, so it feels like a long buildup to this day.”

The Black Wolves, beginning their second season in the National Lacrosse League, will play their home-opener at 7 p.m. Friday against the Calgary Roughnecks. New England is 1-0 following its season-opening, 17-7 victory last Saturday night in Vancouver.

The addition of Clark, who replaced Blane Harrison, isn’t the only change for the team, either.

Reigning NLL Most Valuable Player Shawn Evans will make his home debut against his former team after being traded from Calgary during the offseason. Evans, who set the league’s single-season points record with 130 last season (47 goals, 83 assists), had four goals and two assists in his first game with the Black Wolves.

Pat Saunders added a career-high nine points against Vancouver (four goals, five assists) and Kevin Crowley had five assists. Evan Kirk made 49 saves in goal.

Clark’s favorite part of the win, however, was his team’s consistency.

“The nicest part for us was how we won,” Clark said. “It wasn’t loose. It wasn’t scrambly. It was systematic in terms of how we wanted to play and that was probably the most encouraging part. If you want to be considered a good team, you have to repeat that. We executed like I thought we could. The key is to make it a repeatable action.

“… I think it was a lot of little things (that contributed to the early success), it really was. I said this to the players after the game: ‘The best part about it for me was all the little incremental things we had done, from getting the ball out of our zone to specific matchups on defense.’”

Calgary, led by Dane Dobbie with five goals and six assists, is 0-2. The Roughnecks lost their first two games by a total of three goals, including a 10-9 loss to Buffalo last Saturday.

New England, following the game against Calgary, will travel to play Sunday against the Georgia Swarm (2:05 p.m.)

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