The question is, what's gonna make this better than last year? The only thing that can make it better is to somehow win a championship in these next two tournaments. |
The second period was just the opposite of any period we've played this year. The puck was just jumping in the net at both ends. |
The second period was one of our best periods of college hockey in a long, long time. It has to be that good to hold BC to the number of shots we held them to. |
The shuttle was temporary to make up for all the parking being used for construction. |
The thing that jumped out at me most all weekend was how hard Northeastern played against us, what a great effort they made in both games. We had to really dig deep in the third period to win both games. |
The Tom Anderson 'Atom' has been the driving force for this record. It has been used on 75% of the songs, and that's a conservative estimate. |
There was no investment because [the university] paid the Brazos Transit by the hour. |
There was only an average of 10 people riding the bus a day. |
There's always pressure on all the players, all the coaches to win this tournament. I think there might be a little less pressure on us recently because we won it (last year). It's not like we haven't won it in five years and we got to get going here. So I don't really think it's that big an effect. It's a new team every year. It's a new tournament every year. It's two games. Anybody can win it. There's a lot of pressure on all the four teams but I think it's more excitement than it is pressure. |
There's gonna be a good fight for that position. John's got the step up on everybody else, that's for sure, after what he did last year, but there's certainly no guaranteeing him the job, number one, and there's no guaranteeing that he won't be sharing it with somebody, too. |
They gave us some breaks and we gave them some breaks that you ordinarily don't see in a BU-Maine game. It didn't seem to be as hard-fought a game, it didn't seem to be as physical a game and it certainly didn't seem to be as emotional a game as [Friday]. |
They were trying to be too clever, they were worried about getting goals. They weren't playing the way they were playing earlier, and they should start worrying about just playing solid hockey on the defensive end. Play hard, and the puck will go in the net for you. |
They're playing great. Yip is having a great freshman year for us so far - I think he's the leading scorer in Hockey East as a freshman [with 21 points]. Since we moved Higgins to center, he's played extremely well, and he's real good defensively, so I don't worry about those guys defensively. |
This should be an exciting tournament, as the teams are so evenly matched. |
This team is a handful. They'll scare anyone with their offense. Look at the teams they've beat. |