The New England Black Wolves have played two games and been through two major scoring droughts, going scoreless for the entire third quarter in a season-opening 15-8 loss to Rochester and for the whole second quarter in an 11-10 overtime loss last week to Colorado.

Combined, the Wolves were outscored 13-0 during those two stretches.

"There are lots of things that go on," Black Wolves coach Glenn Clark said of the staff's thoughts during those scoreless quarters. "You look at whether it's time to pull the goalie and change the momentum.

"One thing I've learned over time is you don't want to react too quickly, especially when you have a quality goaltender like Kirky (Evan Kirk). You give guys like that a chance to battle through it. There's lots of things that go into it, lots of little decisions. The wheels are always turning."

New England (0-2) plays its third straight game on the road to start the National lacrosse League season beginning at 7:35 p.m. Friday at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth, Ga., meeting the Georgia Swarm (2-0).

Georgia has scored 18 goals each in a pair of season-opening victories over last year's Champions Cup finalists, Saskatchewan and Buffalo.

Clark said that while the Black Wolves have hardly reached a must-win situation before they've even played their first home game (scheduled for Jan. 28), they certainly don't want to dig themselves any farther into a hole.

He called the loss to Rochester, in which New England racked up 31 penalty minutes and saw the Knighthawks score nine power-play goals, "a disappointment." The narrow margin of defeat against Colorado was more like "an NLL game," he said.

"We tied it up and had two really good scoring chances," Clark said in his weekly conference call. "But any time you're still waiting for your first victory ... we're disappointed. You've got to temper it. You can't overreact, you can't underreact."

Kevin Crowley led the Black Wolves in scoring at Colorado with three goals and three assists. Kyle Buchanan and Shawn Evans each had two goals and three assists. Kirk finished with 42 saves.

Georgia is led by Lyle Thompson with four goals and 12 assists overall and by Shayne Jackson (six goals, six assists) and Jordan Hall (two goals, 10 assists), each with 12 points.