A lot of it depends on guys who are banged up. We're starting on a road trip and all of those cities are an hour from Omaha. I'm not carrying an extra body if they're not playing, it's that simple. Especially the young guys, they're gonna play, that's the only way they're going to get better. |
After Game 2, the one thing that's not close is power plays. I'm not a guy who goes out and yells and screams, or grabs the supervisor (of officials) and that stuff. I guess I should have got up and said something after Game 3, and I didn't. |
After the first period, it wasn't 1-0. It should have been more for them. Early, we had some players that weren't ready to play and that's disappointing. It's guys that you count on and everybody expects to be good players. |
Both teams have come a long ways in terms of trying to get their organizations back to respectability. If they ever had the opportunity to play each other, it means that they've come a long ways. |
Chin up. Let's go. This doesn't change anything. Remember I said from the outset, the team we need to stay with and now that we really need to stay with is Vancouver. |
Dion has been our best player. All year. Period. It isn't even close. |
Dion was not very good, especially early in the game. |
Eric worked hard. He likes traffic. He gives you the same thing every day - it doesn't matter what group he's in (whether against rookies or veterans). |
Every goal that we've quietly set in our room, our players have reached it as a team. As a team, we've exceeded what I've expected. What we haven't exceeded -- or reached -- is individuals, where we thought they should be. |
For a team that's not a high-scoring team, our power play scores lots of big goals, goals that are at pivotal times. |
He makes our team much tougher to play against and he knows what it takes to win. |
He runs 500-600 head of cattle and has the best of both worlds - in the country and in the town. |
He was really good. It was good to see. |
He's a good player. The thing about Dustin Boyd is he's a 200-foot player. There's some other guys that get a lot of splash because they're spectacular when they have the puck but he's a good player in all areas of the game. |
He's made that team on his performance over the last two seasons, not two weeks. At the end of the day, the 18- and 17-year-olds in that tournament get a lot of PR because they're young guys playing at that level but the 19-year-olds are the difference in that tournament, always. |