Not only have we been through it mentally, but we're much better off physically because we have almost everyone. It's grueling for sure, but it is what it is and you have to find a way to deal with it. We're playing well, and I think we've taken a big step as a team. |
Obviously I was relieved to see it go in. He (Fretter) was sick, and we weren't sure if he was going to play. |
Obviously it was a cheap hit. He came off the bench and raced across the ice at him. He tried to kill him. |
Obviously the goal was in, but the replay camera is probably the only one that you couldn't really 100 percent conclusively tell it was in. Everybody on the bench knew it was in right away. |
Obviously we'd love to score six or seven goals but we don't do that. You're not going to beat people easy. |
On the one they did call, it took them 10-15 seconds. I almost went on the ice before I got his attention. |
Right now, you hope to find a way to win and we did. We were resilient enough to win tonight. Probably, earlier in the year we wouldn't have done that. |
Somebody just said to me and I think it's true, 'We just ran out of time,' and that's not to discredit Maine. |
Sometimes you like to win maybe better or prettier but, whatever, we'll take the win and go home and get ready for Saturday. |
Teams have to have good seniors and they have to have multiple players contribute at this time of the year. We had that. |
That first period, they could have had five or six alone. He was really solid and kept us in the game. |
That would have been a big one. The long delay in reviewing it certainly took the momentum away. |
That's what's haunted us all year, the inability to score goals. |
The crowd's been tremendous over this last stretch. |
The goal that Fretter scored was the type of goal he got last year that he hasn't been able to get this year. |