The difference in the game was that we gave them their second goal. They capitalized on our mistakes and we didn't capitalize on theirs.

He's relentless. He's an animal. That shorthand goal typifies Marc.

It was a frustrating game for us. We had them 4-1 and into the third period, and that game should have been over.

I told Eli that he may have make some saves that I wouldn't normally need him to make. I said that to win, he may have to come up bigger than normal.

I told our team that (South) is probably the best team in the state. We didn't play mistake-free, but we had a tremendous effort from our penalty-killing unit.

We got lucky. But truthfully, since I've been here, we've never had a team that has felt like they could just show up and win. It may have looked like it last year, but those kids never took it for granted.

We just took really stupid penalties. And if you do that against very good teams, you're going to be in trouble. We let them back in that game, and again I give them credit. But they should not have been in that game.

We gave them chances to come back, and they did. I give them credit. You have to learn how to finish a team, and we didn't do a very good job.

We know that anything can happen in the regional tournament. When you're down, you still have a chance. But I hope we don't have to come back twice this year.

That says something about your goalie when he doesn't face a lot of action, then has to make some really quality saves.