It was great to see that after such a dismal performance last Wednesday, we rebounded in great fashion. In spite of the loss, we played well. I hope you all understand that it is so much easier to accept a loss if a true and honest effort has been given. In every athletic contest, someone must win and someone must lose. I believe it's much more fun to win, but there is never any shame in losing when your best effort has been given. Our best effort was given today. We were beaten but we didn't lose.

I was particularly pleased with how well we went to the net today. It has been weakness all season long. Today though, we showed a lot more intensity, drive and aggression in attacking pucks in front of the net. We still need to focus more on our forecheck. We seem to lack that 'pep in our step' as we attack our opponent's defensemen as they attempt to make that first pass or as they try 'lug' the puck out of the zone. When the forecheck works though, it works well.

We have four more games left -- all win 'able' games. Remember, they are all lose 'able', too. I expect them all to be close. Focus, Work Hard, Attack ..... ALWAYS!!!

I believe that if you are bored with life, your problem is that you don't have a lot of goals. You must have goals and dreams if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.-- Lou Holtz

It's easy to practice something you're already good at, and that's what most people do. What's tough is to go out and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.-- Pete Rose

Practice without improvement is meaningless.-- Chuck Knox

Success doesn't carry a dollar sign ..... Success isn't something that just happens. Success is learned. Success is practiced. And then it's shared.-- Sparky Anderson