Gary Graham Quotations

Carroll loves to put pucks at the net, and there's definitely going to be a lot of pressure on our defense. The goaltending and the defensemen really stepped up tonight.

We had the first pick in the draft and there were kids and parents telling me not to pick their kid because they wouldn't play for Snider.

I don't have anything against any of them, ... They are volunteers, and I appreciate what they did. My job is to do what's best for the city.

By law we have to have so much money in reserves, ... (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency) was saying our reserves weren't enough.

It's important enough that we should take another look at it, ... We've hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There's still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it may be spread out through more years.

One of the things I get a lot of grief on is the amount of money I spend on planning, ... In the long run, it's money well spent.

Obviously, we had a lot of leadership tonight. In between the second and third periods, we talked about what it took to get to where we were at and what it was going to take in the third period. Obviously, the boys responded.

We were kind of the black eye of the league because players weren't very disciplined, we weren't winning many games and nobody's cared much about Snider hockey.

We were in every match today. We were pretty steady for the day. Our serving let us down in one game in the Evansville Reitz match. Overall, I would like to commend Kaelin Tuell. She played the back row for us and did a good job. Kara Dieterlen helped us with a couple of service runs and she's starting to show elements of leadership, which we've been looking for. I thought Kelsie McKee did a pretty good job at the net.

Defensively, we played pretty hard and our net defense wasn't bad. But we didn't have the opportunity to put the ball away on them as much as we liked.