It's great for our organization. To get the ship righted and play in the finals is big. |
It's nice right now. But tomorrow will be even more of a challenge. They are a good team and they are going to rebound. |
Kyle is as fine of a player as the league's ever seen. |
Over a 60-game schedule you're going to have ups and downs. What will be important is how we respond with the best team in the league coming in. |
Scoring is two things for us - a byproduct of hard work and a byproduct of how we like to play hockey. We like to play up-tempo, puck-pressure hockey. And creating a lot of offense out of that is part of that style of play. It's a lot of (talent) too. |
That extra output from guys lower in your lineup makes the difference. We have guys on that third or fourth line that can score. |
That has to give our guys confidence knowing that we can come over here and get a win. |
That's the beauty of junior hockey. You have to show up and compete every night. |
The guys did a real good job of killing the penalty and we were able to get a shot on net (and it went in). |
There was one team prepared to play tonight and one team that wasn't. The team that was up 2-0 was prepared. |
They are a tough team to play. They play . . . physical. |
They got the momentum there in the second, but I stressed to our guys that that was as good as we would see them all night. I knew as long as we could get to the locker room at 2-2 we'd be OK. |
They have a game in hand, but this gives us some breathing room ? if you can call it that. |
They will be desperate, any team facing elimination will be prepared with their back against the wall. |
Troy is playing well and has been - no doubt about that. But, the team has been limiting high scoring chances and allowing him to see the puck. |