As far as our character, we are a very similar team. We have a chance to win some games down the road here. Hopefully, we'll win enough to get a shot at the playoffs. But we have to improve a lot.

Any time you have Paul in net you're going to have a chance to win most games. Paul doesn't allow a lot of goals.

It's bitterly disappointing but I've been told there's no chance of me making the Scotland games. I was really looking forward to them after our great results against Italy and Norway.

We have been in too many of these games in the last couple years, where we had a chance to put a team away and didn't — and too many of them have been against No. 4, ... I have one in mind from last year.

We had a good week. We're 7-7 now, and we got a chance to get a lot of games in with nice weather. I think this is the strongest up and down lineup we've ever had. Defensively we gave up a lot of unearned runs. We're trying people in new positions, and it was the first time outside. In the next two weeks we'll try to shore up the defense.

If we take care of the ball, we've got a chance to compete in all of our games.