Ralph Russo Quotations

I don't think we've played our best hockey yet. But they are finding ways to win.

Give our guys credit for playing shorthanded. Corey Weber really played great on defense. He's filled in well all year where ever he's played. They (Saints) were not deep but their first line can really skate and they can play with anyone.

I thought that we generated enough chances to score that we could have scored.

Jason had another solid game in goal for us and again our seniors stepped up. Chris (Deacon) had a great game and I thought Jeff Rosa had one of his best games of the year.

That was a great way to win it. I thought we lost our focus a little after we got up on them but we hung in there and that's the way we've battled all year.

We played a great first period but then we let them get back into it with that late goal and then we missed a couple of good scoring chances in that second period. But to our credit we came back strong in the third.

We had some miscommunication on their first goal but other than that I thought we made some plays but just couldn't finish anything off. They pressured us in our own end and we had trouble breaking out and getting anything set up on offense. But credit to them. They're a great skating team.

We tried to make it like a playoff game knowing that Amity was already in the playoffs and the kids remembered losing to them early so this was a huge game for us. We really stressed tightening up our defense and for the most part we did but we still have a lot of work to do.

We just need to keep playing well and let the chips fall where they fall. Titles and all that stuff are just rewards for playing well. If we can play well against some of the better teams that would be a feather in our caps.

We have eight seniors, and seven of them have played through some lean years. They're a feisty bunch and they want to win.

They still felt they were skating well and could win games. We just had too many defensive lapses. We were giving up goals in bunches.

That first period was maybe the best period we've played all year. We played smart, moved the puck well and the whole bench was into it. We need to work on keeping our focus like that for three periods.

It was just nice to get back on the ice after such a long layoff. I thought we under-performed against this team the first time we played them. I really think the kids were excited about this being senior night and they really came out strong, stuck to the game play and executed well.

Their goalie was good and he was lucky and it was a fantastic effort on their part but I give my team credit because they didn't fold. These kind of games you can almost feel something funky is going to happen and when they scored on that fluky goal it really took the wind out of us but we were able to pull it out.

I really thought this was a game we could have won but again we had too many defensive lapses and couldn't capitalize on our scoring chances.