70 Quotes by Dave Hakstol

We're not going to expect a guy to jump into the league his first year and lead the WCHA in defenseman scoring. That's not realistic. I think our young guys are doing a good job, but they can continue to get better and continue to add more offense. We want them to do that.

We open up with Manitoba and then do not ease into our schedule.

We got off to the start we wanted. We established our game and played physically.

When we went down 2-0, I actually thought we were playing pretty good. The first goal we scored was important. It relaxed us a bit and gave us a little extra confidence. Then we scored at the end of the first and we were able to carry that momentum with us into the locker room.

You can look back over a long period of time. Some of the teams that won it at UND were expected to and others maybe not so much. It says a lot about how important it is to have the right to advance to the Frozen Four.

We've had tight battles with virtually every time we've played them. It was a playoff-type hockey game tonight.

We've had a lot of situations where you lose a guy to a hitting from behind midway through games. You just adjust to that.

Those two guys we have in back will have a lot of stability for us. They can give a lot of confidence to the guys playing in front of them.

We saw some good chemistry with our forward unit. All the goals we scored came after two or three passes.