18 Quotes by Gary Defina

There's one team that has separated themselves from the rest of the pack, and that's Cheyenne Mountain. But from the second seed to the 12th, all of those teams are very competitive and can beat anyone.

Defensively, we were running around a little bit. We spent a little too much time in our zone today. We got away from our game plan. We played down to their level. That's the best way to put it. Then again, it was good enough to win.

It's kind of the same as the beginning of the year. It's a young team with jitters at the beginning of the playoffs. They don't have a lot of experience. But it's good to get that one behind us.

It's huge. Like we said, we started off slow. We knew we were going to have some growing pains, but we're peaking at the right time. We're right where we want to be. We have some momentum and we're playing well.

It was a great hockey game. It was fun for us to watch. There were two evenly matched teams, and it could have gone either way.

They worked hard when they needed to. (Liberty) is obviously struggling. These guys did what it took to beat that team.

The kids know and they are focused. Every game is do or die. We've just got to play better every game.

In about half of our games, we've had bad first periods, but not tonight. We came out flying, and that's what we need to do from here on out.

He's the first one on the ice and the last one off every time we skate. He wants it so bad - he really wants to improve.