Roger Hatch Quotations

It's just all happening in bunches this year. It's pretty crazy. It's a huge loss for us to lose Mike Andrew, but Mike Langley stepped into the captaincy and did a great job.

It's a pretty big feather in Tom's cap.

Without the people you have no union. ... Without the laborers this country wouldn't be what it is.

Ryan and Akio and Ian were all at the camp at Shawnigan Lake, ... By all accounts (Ian) had a very strong game, as did Ryan and Akio, so I think those guys will have a pretty good chance of making the Canada West squad. Mike wasn't there but he's still on the list and I think he's going to make it.

Our government has shipped a lot of the work over seas. Our work force in the U.S. is going down and it has been for a number of years.

It was just one of those extraordinary seasons where anything that could go wrong did. Last year it was just the total opposite. Everything went so smoothly with us - we didn't have any injuries and had lots of veteran leadership, and this year we lost a lot of our veterans and it hurt us a lot. But the guys hung in there and during the last three weeks we played pretty well.

It seems a bit timely now but I handed in my resignation letter in January. I've been doing this for a long time and it's time for me to get out and get someone else in there.

From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's been a passion of mine for a while, and I'll still be there to support (the club).

The guys were very courageous on the day, that's for sure. It was a good game and both teams played pretty darn well. It could have gone either way.

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.