They gave us every opportunity to come back. Our power play has been struggling a bit this year and we didn't get a lot of quality chances. We're happy with the effort but not the result.

It's mind-blowing. I've waited four years for an opportunity to play in the championship and to finally come through with it ? all the hard work's paid off.

It really didn't affect us. We were really motivated after that happened. We were just ready to play and ready to get it started.

It's a rivalry and everybody wants to come out and see Dwyer and Lakes play. When they beat us earlier, that was the first time I'd lost to them since I was a freshman and I didn't want to lose twice to them my senior year.

We always want to be on the field. It is another opportunity for us to make a play. We had that opportunity and didn't make it. That's all you can ask for.

Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.