After the first period and a half, we should have had seven goals. We played very fundamentally sound hockey.

It was more of a confidence-level boost than increasing his ability. He's a good goaltender, but more importantly he's a good person and a great student.

I've been here for 15 years and this is the toughest the section has been top to bottom.

I thought they deserved to win, they had more good chances to score. I thought it was funny that people had written (East) off at the beginning of the year. They play such a tough schedule that we knew they would be back.

We allowed two goals each half and I wasn't to happy about that. We weren't as sharp as we should be in our first league game.

To give up two quick goals like that ... we just weren't sharp.