Terry Ruskowski Quotations

Chris had a very successful junior and college career. He isn't the biggest guy, but he is an extremely hard worker who has a good touch around the net. I like those attributes and I am looking forward to seeing him in training camp.

It could have gone either way. You don't understand. It's just like King Kong dropped off my back. I can actually walk without him off my back. It's been a war.

I respect what Tracy has done here in the Rio Grande Valley, and I thought it would be good to have him on the bench for the game. The bottom line is, I really felt that he deserved to be an All-Star coach because of the job he's done here.

We don't make any excuses. We have to play the game with him or without him. We can't dwell on him not playing. We've played without him before. Once he's back, it's a plus. You have to grab the bull by the horns and have somebody step up and be accounted for. There better be somebody to step up and be accounted for.

This was a huge game for us and it really gives us home ice advantage. We have to concentrate and play disciplined hockey and drive hard to the net, and play a little better defense. It makes the trip back a lot better, I'll tell you that.

This was a great hockey game. Both teams played hard the entire 60 minutes and you couldn't rest for one shift.

Even though he is not a veteran, Paul plays like a vet. He is cool and calm under pressure. We can trust him to do the job and do it well. He is the type of guy I depend on a lot in special team's situations. He can skate well and he moves the puck well. I am hoping he can help the young kids out that we have coming into camp.

Dion was a big part of the organization and we thank him for all he did for us. We wish him the best of luck in Fort Worth.

The thing that bothers me is I can see the playoff players, and I can see the guys that are not coming out to play playoff hockey. That really bothers me.

Adam Davis was one of the players that I liked watching when he played against us. He moves the puck well, is intelligent and can really skate. He wanted to come here. When a guy wants to play in Laredo I try to accommodate him because I know he will play hard for us. We actually were trying to acquire him last season prior to the trade deadline for our playoff push.

There's about three or four other guys I wouldn't mind picking from that team. I really like the team down in Rio. I know the players selected will be very good players.

They're going to come at us. We know it. Everybody else knows it. They're going to come at us, they're going to play hard, they're going to play physical. Just like the two games they did here. We've got to weather the storm somewhat, and hopefully our power play unit can get one or two goals and hold on as long as we can and try and squeak out a win.

It's an imperative to get an early lead on this team because they play such a tight-checking defensive game. It's nice to score the way we did and to take them out of their game plan. We haven't seen the end of them, I know we haven't. I know they're going to come out and play a lot harder (Saturday) so we have to be prepared for them.

It was one of those games that everything went right for us and everything went wrong for Rio. That's only one game. We have to go back (Tuesday) and play in there. We know it's going to be a different story going back there.

Serge has been contributing to our success for the past four years. He is a very important part of our success. Serge is a leader and is well deserving of this award. I am very proud of his efforts and accomplishments.

I'm hoping he can step right in and do the job for us, but logic says he's probably going to need some time to get back in the groove again and get back in game situations. Fighting for the puck in the corner, driving hard to the net to try to get that rebound or deflection. Those kinds of things he's going to have to get adapted to.

I know one aspect we have to improve on is our defensive coverage. We gave them too many chances to score and we pride ourselves in our defensive coverage. That was the biggest disappointment was our defensive coverage.