Airport is a strong, physical team. They have a lot of football players who play basketball, but they were the better team. |
Andy and I talk on the phone about every day. We both have the same coaching philosophy — win with defense. We'll be prepared. We won't have any trouble getting ready for that game. |
As soon as you start winning 10-0, 12-0 you're going to get a bad name. It just put this black eye on the team. If you look at the numbers, it was just common sense to put us back where we were. It's something that shouldn't have happened in the first place, but we're all thankful that the athletic directors voted us back into Class A. |
He came to me and said he wanted to play. The team was happy to have him there. |
He scored two real nice goals and set up two nice ones as our captain. |
He's going to be who the guys look to in the locker room, I think. We're losing a lot of leadership, and leadership is what got us where we went this year. He's one of the guys who I predict will be one of our leaders going into next year. |
He's obviously going to help us once he gets his feet wet. He was nervous tonight. |
He's the kind of kid who took it personally. He's been waiting for this day and I'm glad he got it. |
I think that's what cost them. They hung on and hung on like a rope-a-dope in boxing and almost beat us doing it. But I'm not afraid to play 11, 12 forwards. When you have that much depth and that much trust as a coach in your players, they feed off that trust. That's going to beat a couple of skilled guys on the ice. |
I told him that I had a vision of him scoring a hat trick. As I was driving to the game with the coaching staff, I told them that we were going to need a big game out of Sean. |
I was saying all year long we have a championship team. It's an unbelievable mix. We have 12 seniors, all awesome kids, and with them showing the ropes to our young skilled guys, it really is perfect. |
If I were to go back two years ago, when he was a freshman, I'd never think he'd be able to throw his body around like he does now. He's one of those guys where people keep their head up in the neutral zone because they know he can do some damage. |
It was a huge win for us, obviously, because we cut (three) games from our schedule. |
It's certainly a surprise when you put four girls together and win a state title. They're young kids, real aggressive and have worked very hard. I don't even know if they know what they've done yet. |
Sean was a little snake-bit in the regular season. He had a lot of chances, but he only had four or five goals. |