A kid that big takes up a ton of the net. |
At the start of every practice, we skated around the ice and passed back and forth to (one another's) partner. It was pretty basic and pretty monotonous after a while, but it kind of gives you the idea that, hey, back to square one. |
Being a champion can become a habit. So let's establish that thing and see what it feels like to become a champion. Let's really put our nose to the grindstone, let's work at this and let's really put a lot of energy into winning this tournament. |
Being on that side, I know what they were going through. It's frustrating. |
Coach won't give us the guy's e-mail address. |
Every night, the last three games he's played, the onus has kind of been on the guys up front. We haven't scored enough goals to give him that support, and we also haven't done our part defensively. |
Guys were saying, 'Two more left, two more to go. We want more. This group thinks it deserves more. The attitude is let's do whatever it takes to get this thing done. |
He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up. |
I always wanted to play for the Badgers, I always wanted to be a captain and I always wanted to win a national championship. We accomplished all of those. |
I can see the whole world up here right now. |
I feel like I can do anything right now. I can probably jump off and I can fly. |
I hope it's snowing. I think that will be cool for some reason. If there was some crazy snowstorm, it would make the story that much greater that we played a game out there at Lambeau Field with it snowing. It would be like a Packer game then. |
I lay awake in bed at night, thinking about how it will feel. How great it will feel to win it. |
I said we're national champions together the rest of our lives. No one can take that from us. |
I still remember that, the feeling we got. We looked at each other on the bench and said 'Let's go.' We scored one, let's go again. And two shifts later we scored another one. We told coach, get us out there. Ride us. It was a pretty neat feeling. |