He's relentless. He's an animal. That shorthand goal typifies Marc. |
I told Eli that he may have make some saves that I wouldn't normally need him to make. I said that to win, he may have to come up bigger than normal. |
I told our team that (South) is probably the best team in the state. We didn't play mistake-free, but we had a tremendous effort from our penalty-killing unit. |
It was a frustrating game for us. We had them 4-1 and into the third period, and that game should have been over. |
That says something about your goalie when he doesn't face a lot of action, then has to make some really quality saves. |
The difference in the game was that we gave them their second goal. They capitalized on our mistakes and we didn't capitalize on theirs. |
We gave them chances to come back, and they did. I give them credit. You have to learn how to finish a team, and we didn't do a very good job. |
We got lucky. But truthfully, since I've been here, we've never had a team that has felt like they could just show up and win. It may have looked like it last year, but those kids never took it for granted. |
We just took really stupid penalties. And if you do that against very good teams, you're going to be in trouble. We let them back in that game, and again I give them credit. But they should not have been in that game. |
We know that anything can happen in the regional tournament. When you're down, you still have a chance. But I hope we don't have to come back twice this year. |