This means a great deal to us, especially since the school is so new. We want to show people that we're a good team, too.

The state tournament means a lot to us. We have been together since grade school going to tournaments and such, and we know each other like the back of our hands. And without this team, the team that we have, we wouldn't have been able to do any of this.

It's very difficult to schedule anytime you're a 5A school, especially when people know you have a solid team. At the time, we thought it was going to be a solid schedule, not overpowering.

We've got a few kids who are friends with people on the (school) newspaper, and they've kind of pushed them a little bit. (The newspaper) wrote a story about the fact that we don't get a lot of recognition inside our school. We're getting a lot of students coming out to our games.

I think it's good. It puts us on a stage with every other sport that's major. People who know hockey know there really is not a place in hockey for steroids. I'm sure there are things you want to enhance your performance, but I think at the end of the day you'll see we are clean.

A lot of people say things to us. We're so young and, I guess, cute. We want people to watch our sport and understand it.