I give [Tomes] a lot of credit. I called him this morning when he was in class and told him he was going. This is good for him. He had a chance. His back was against the wall and now he's going to give us something to think about. |
I think he made key stops for us today. [There were] a couple he batted out of the air. I think he played pretty well out there, they just scored nice goals on us. |
The baby boomers are getting older, approaching the peak age for buying a boat. They're an affluent group of people. |
This was one of the highest scoring tournaments we've ever had. We ended up with 10 300s, five 299s and one 298. |
We came out with the energy to end it in the third. We survived a bit in the second, but I thought we were playing hard. We're not always going to do it the prettiest way. |
We got away from what we needed to do in the second period. We knew they were dangerous short-handed, but we didn't respond properly. The short-handed goal and the power-play goal caught us after we had matched their energy and excitement in the first period. |
We got that goal at the end of the first period. I thought we had a pretty good energy in the first period. We matched the excitement that they had. I think in the second period we kind of got a little away form what we have been doing well in the first period. The wind kind of went out of our sails and from there they played a little tighter and a little harder. Their guys made plays at the right time. |
We were down a little from last year, because a lot of guys are at the 'High Rollers' in (Las) Vegas. We had 188 teams last year. This year we had 178 - only 10 teams down - but hopefully we'll bring it up next year. |
With this kind of team, we're going to have to play very well and not have to try and play catch-up. We battled for a little bit, but they were hungry. We didn't get very good goaltending tonight, we didn't play good defense. It was one of those nights. |