We're just looking to finish as high as we can. We need to get at least three points out of our last six possible to secure that. |
We've been getting production from a lot of different people and that's a real positive. |
We've got some versatility with our lineup. We've played without Colin in our lineup before and played pretty well. That's what we're going to need to do again. |
We've got to get together, play well and play hard. This is an experience you have to learn from. You have to overcome it and adapt and keep pushing forward. |
We've got to play disciplined. Move your feet and quit running around like an idiot. |
We've just got to get better energy combined with brains. |
We've seen the good things he can do for our team, having had him here before. |
We've turned around our defensive play and our goaltending has improved with that. They go hand in hand. After some shoddy play early in the season, we've improved that (defensive) area. |
When we take penalties, a lot of the time it's out of frustration – through our own frustration – and out of carelessness or we stop skating. When we're moving and banging and crashing, we don't take as many because we're in good position. |
When you go three games and only score three goals that is cause for concern. You just have to work through it, but there is no easy way to do that. |
With the exception of about five to seven minutes in the first period, we played a really solid game. It was kind of similar to the last game we played against Port Huron. We controlled the pace, didn't score but had a lot of chances. We just stayed with the program instead of getting frustrated. |
You can play defense as long as you are aggressive and forcing, and I thought we did a good job of that in the first half of the game and not so much in the second. We had a lot of penalties, and I think that kind of reared its head in the third period because we looked a little tired. We fell behind 2-0, and a lot of that we did on our own, and we have to correct that to even the series on Thursday. |
You can take good, aggressive penalties, but we're not doing that. We're either overzealous, or we're carrying our sticks carelessly and not playing with smarts. We just have to have better energy combined with brains, and we're not getting that right now. |
You lose in the first round of the playoffs, I don't think it's a success. There were some positives as we were able to overcome a slow start. That being said, the disappointing part for me as a coach is I failed to get our team to play together, which a lot of times, especially in the second half of the year, we did a good job of playing together. But in the playoffs, we didn't do that. |
You want to have a system where players are interchangeable. When you go through a number of injuries like we did, there are a fair amount of positives that can come out of it. Generally, we've played a lot of people … and it has worked because people understand what we wanted. |