Alain Vigneault Quotations

As far as the skill and quickness, I saw some things that I liked. He was able to get into some holes.

If he wants to play in the NHL against good teams, now he's playing against one of the top teams in the American League and he's got to find away to make a difference in the game. The only difference I see is that Max doesn't play the puck as much around his net as Flats (Wade Flaherty).

They're a very strong team, like Syracuse, like Toronto, like Rochester. Our division is probably the toughest of the four, so whoever we play against it's going to be a huge battle.

We played with the urgency and desperation that the situation demanded. We scored two and that was an improvement for us.

We played where we wanted to play and took a lot of their skill away by making the right decisions and finishing checks and being gritty in certain areas.

We played a really strong first period and it was 0-0. I don't know if we lost our legs because we definitely found them in the third. I'm not sure what it was. They outplayed us in the second period and that's where they won the game.

We always got together on my mom's side and I was about six-years-old. It was the last year my grandfather on my mother's side was alive. Everybody got together and he had a heart attack a couple weeks later. That last Christmas with him just stands out in my mind.

We should be geared up for that final stretch and we should go into the playoffs with a good rhythm here.

In any league, to come back from a two-goal deficit is a challenge. The effort was good and I didn't think the execution was bad. We just stuck to it and came back.

I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sharp to play these games. I think we're going to be fine.