28 Quotes by Mark Richards

Until we clinch a playoff spot, we have to play every game with a sense of urgency and desire. If we play Fayetteville like we played Jacksonville (on Tuesday), we'll lose by six goals.

We're becoming a good hockey team. You obviously want to win the games, but we're getting points over Jacksonville right now. It's a different feeling going into the locker room every night. A couple of months ago, we came into games hoping not to get embarrassed.

We knew this was a downhill race and that we'd be very, very hard to beat.

Many of them are not sure what being a leader is yet. I want to allow them to use events that are important to the community ... to allow them to have that opportunity to be that leader.

My second thought was my wife (Cyndi) and my children, and how quickly I could prepare them for what we would be facing. Then I sat there and felt like, 'Man, I wasted a lot of time.' You sure look at things differently.

On the first night (we decided) to stick inshore and it really paid dividends. The next day we woke up to find ourselves ahead of everyone and it stayed that way.

I wish Trevor the best. But both of us understood that this is a business and changes had to be made.

Here we got a high school student doing something that's really a smart move on his part. I just want to say his smart thinking was able to drive the bus safely, get to a safe stop and take care of the 11 other students on the bus.

I think we've talked about that a lot, about the opportunity and how it's knocking at our door. There's a lot of players who played minor-league hockey for 10-15 years that never made it past the first round.