I bring many years of defensive experience. I believe I know a lot about how to play defense and I like to think I can help our defensemen become better.

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Everyone is doing their part this season on both ends of the court. You can play the best defense, but you also have to score to win the games as well.

We've got to play a lot better defense than we did in the first game. Obviously, we're facing a team with more speed than South Whidbey. We need to continue to improve, have everybody do their job on defense and keep them in the corral.

It's been a really good experience. He's a really tough coach, a disciplined coach. If you can't play defense, you can't play...He worked with me on my shot, ball-handling, thinking, making better decisions...

There's not a lot of coaching going on - I'm just the guy on the bench. But it should be fun and I think it'll be an intense game of hockey.