Shawn James Robert Belleis a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey Leaguewith the Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and the Colorado Avalanche... (wikipedia)
I take full responsibility for this game. They scored when I was in the box. I took too many penalties.
That's the thing you want as a quarterback. All we have to do is get the ball in their hands and let them make a play. It's great to be able to throw a little hitch route and let one of those receivers take it for 80 yards.
You always want the ball in your hands, but you have to support the decision that is best for the team.
When you're coming in from another team, for the other guys to rely on you and trust you on the ice is a pretty good feeling.
We had a ton of chances, but were not able to capitalize.
Even though we may have lost a few games, we felt like in our eyes we could play with anybody in the Big 12.
It's the way our two countries are. (In Canada) it's the main sport. You'll see everybody play. Down here it's different. In Texas, it's all football. That's the primary thought is football or the NBA.
They were pushing the line back to where it affected my vision, and we weren't protecting like we needed to.
They made a big deal of it. But for me and Anthony, we're just hockey players ? like any other hockey players out there and we just got drafted. For people to make it a big issue, it's not really.
If he doesn't see all the effort he wants, we'll stop practice at any time and do up-downs. In one of our last practices, we weren't going hard enough. So we ended up doing up-downs for the rest of practice, which was good because it was what we needed to do.