Matt's been our leader this season and faced a lot of responsibility.
Brookings has had a real good streak in the last few years. They have a good program. Sioux Falls has been coming on lately. They worked their way into fourth in the league standings in the last month and a half. They were seeded below us for most of the season.
That's who I wanted to play first. We didn't want to play Watertown again coming off a tough loss to them. Mitchell will be a pretty exciting game for our opening game.
It wasn't our night tonight. The pucks didn't bounce our way. We need to play better at this time of year and we just aren't doing it.
We actually played some of the toughest teams in the state and I think we opened the eyes of some of the higher-seeded teams.
The goals we did score came off things we've been working on in practice. I'm real pleased that things we work on show up when it's time.
We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.
Their goalie was there to play, and boy, he did.
That darn first period. If we had a game we could start without the first period, we'd be in business.
Duke had quite a few one-on-one opportunities and faced a lot of breakaways. He did a good job of making saves and holding us in there.
