That penalty was definitely a turning point in the game. |
That's going to be difficult to get back into it. |
The effort in the third is something I'm proud of. |
The goals they got were just good hockey plays by them, not mistakes by us. |
The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call. |
Their goalie was good, he made some nice stops. Was his performance spectacular? I wouldn't call it that, I think sometimes we made his job easy. |
There were a couple times that they had their sticks raised and when we had our sticks raised but the goalie was on top of it. |
They were on fire early. They scored early and often. |
They're a good team and we knew going in that it was going to be a challenge. I thought we played well, we did a lot of things right to keep the game within striking distance. |
They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong. |
We had a great third period. It's one of those things as coaches that we've got to figure out; what's going to make them play all three [periods] like that? |
We started the parade there. It's just frustrating as a coach because you see a little bit of light, a little bit of a comeback, and then you start taking penalties. |
We were creating chances we just weren't finishing and on the defensive side of things we made a few mistakes that their leading scorer capitalized on. |
We'd love to have our best players on the ice but we have Warroad next week. |
We'll put ourselves in a good position to be the seed we want to be if we win tonight. |