Mike McShane Quotations

I think it's great. We've done it every year since the conference began and I think that says a lot about the program and the players. It's not easy and every year everybody is going for you. We take it one game at a time and don't get too far ahead of ourselves. Now we're getting close to the playoffs and we still have a big weekend ahead of us with Colby and Bowdoin.

I'd like to see us at practice step it up a little more. Our confidence should be better and when your confidence is high, you should loosen up and play better.

I thought our seniors did a really good job. We won 22 games. It's been a great season and I just think it ended a little too early. I thought we dominated all three periods. To lose a game like that is hard.

I thought we had control of the whole game. I thought we played very well except for a penalty here and there that they scored on. It was a great game.

We did a lot better in the second on defense. In the beginning we did awful. We were throwing the puck away and they were beating us on the one-on-ones. The guys were playing really sloppy and then they settled down. I think the centers helped out by coming back. We moved the puck a little quicker.

We had a great year. It's too bad we had to end it on that note because I thought we were the better team out there tonight. We just didn't finish. They had a couple of bad goals and hung in there, so it was just kind of disappointing.

Their kids did a good job of checking us in the neutral zone. We didn't generate a lot of scoring opportunities until later in the game.

They just work their tails off and go, go, go. We can expect a fast team that's very aggressive.

We didn't play great the first period, but we didn't play too bad. I think they (Skidmore) played really well. They skated hard and their goalie played really well. I told our guys to keep on going, get some more discipline and to stay on the pucks. And we did. We beat them to a lot of loose pucks in the corner. We had some good jumps. Once we got the first goal it kind of opened things up. We got a lot of momentum off that.

Right now, I feel good about our team.