The safety of the visiting coaches and team, as well as the game officials and fans, is of the utmost concern.

We knew this postponement was of the utmost importance to ensure the safety of our student-athletics, coaches and administrators.

Everyone's concern is the safety of the players and the coaches and the fans. And that's what most paramount. Obviously, I've never watched the Weather Channel as I have in the last 24, 48 hours.

Slovenia kept interrupting the flow of our game and it's tough when you're the visiting team to get into your game with so many interruptions.

We're very happy to have him on our team. I think it is essential in our coaches' game plan to have a strong line on defense and offense. Just his character and his determination will pull everyone up to a higher level.

We started enforcing it as MLL policy this year. It came about to allow for safety of officials and fans because of the closeness to the playing surface.