I have really high expectations for this year. We are a young team, but what we lack in experience, we make up for in ability.

We've had a young team all year, but we always played hard. In the last month or so, though, we're playing at another level above just playing hard. I think that's what separated this program from others the last couple of years, and now we've just put it all together.

The expectations here are very high and we know that coming in. We're going to try our hardest every year to be on top of the Big Ten and play as a team to be there.

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ...
Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

It's been our nemesis all year. I really can't put a finger on it. It's not for lack of effort. It may just be some lack of hockey sense on our part; not being in the right places at the right times.

This is the best we've played all year as a team.