He's really gained some composure and puck poise. And he's got that big shot from the point. |
Hopefully, we'll get a chance to bump into him. |
I chalk that up to nothing more than coincidence. Tonight we were just sharper offensively than we were on Friday. We didn't get a lot of chances, but the ones we had, we made count. We wanted to take one step this weekend and we took one positive step. |
I don't think anybody was too happy with our performance and effort (Thursday) night. I thought as a team, we responded well to the challenge. I really liked the second efforts we saw in all different areas - not just the goals. |
I don't want to get into anything technical because I'm not a doctor. But it is season ending. |
I feel pretty good about our position as far as the NCAA tournament goes. But every game is an opportunity to improve your position. Every game is an opportunity to improve your overall team play. Hopefully we haven't peaked yet. |
I know what he's doing is impressive. He's been a rock for this team. I feel that's been apparent in his play. |
I think he stuck with it and has continued to work extremely hard, and now we're starting to see some of the results for Jonathan coming on the ice. He's a guy that does an awful lot for us. ... He's really starting to come on and be a dynamic force for us offensively. |
I think it's important to be playing well at this time of year. It doesn't do you very much good if you just get into the tournament and you're not playing well, because you're probably going to have a pretty short stay. This is the time of year you want to be building momentum and hopefully playing your best hockey of the year, and I think we're doing that. |
I think the way we played was the most important not necessarily the outcome of the game. We had a poor performance (Friday) night, taking nothing away from Minnesota, because they had a lot to do with that. But we really needed to come out with a good team effort, and that's what we did. |
I thought Drew Stafford played some of the best minutes he's played in his career here this weekend. |
I thought he had some tough saves to make in the first period. Those were critical to get us through that first period when we didn't really play all that well and we weren't sharp. He was sharp. |
I thought there was a drastic difference from the way we played the last 30 minutes and the way we played the first 30. We didn't come out and play well in the first half. Now, our backs are against the wall. |
I was very happy with the way our team kept pushing and kept pressing all the way through 60 minutes. I thought our team did an excellent job of closing out the game. |
I wasn't here, but I've heard so many things about the job they did in 1997. We've only been in town for a few hours, but everybody has been first class in every way. I think that makes it easy for our guys to concentrate on the job at hand. |