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Manny was great for us again tonight and we made the most of our opportunities. We only had two scoring chances in the third period and that was two too many. I guess it's the mysteries of sports. That's a very good hockey team fighting for a playoff spot and we just seem to have their number.

We never say die. We didn't give up. We had plenty of chances to give up, but we hung in there.

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That was a tough one. But there are no excuses. We had chances and they had chances, but they just came out and played harder than we did tonight.

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That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

That was a good game. Both teams had chances to score, but the defenses kept the ball out of the net the whole day.

That was nice. We had a couple of chances early but we weren't able to get it. But we never backed off, and we did the things that we're capable of doing.

That was probably our best chance and we took advantage of it. Like them we had our share of chances but the defenses and the keepers kept coming up big.

That was an extremely great accomplishment for these girls. With all that we went through, the girls had a lot of chances to throw in the towel, but they didn't. They stuck together.

That's the way things go once in a while. We were bad in the first period. There were too many chances for them, and when you fall back 3-1, it's hard to come back against a good team.

That's the plan. It's worked before between Pedro and Schilling and myself. You'd have to ask hitters if it really makes a difference, but I think if you get in a three-game series with Schilling, myself and (Josh) Beckett, that kind of contrast, I think chances are pretty good if we all have our 'A' games that day.

That's the nature of this conference. There's so much balance, there's so much excellence, that during any one cluster or segment of games, chances are that if there's six games, five of them are coming down to the last possession.

That's the main thing. With that experience of watching all the players, you kind of get a feeling for who's open, why they're open, getting the same chances a couple of times and you start to understand a breakdown here-and-there. You're just anticipating and trying to read what is going on. Sometimes you're wrong and sometimes you're right.

I was pleased by our aggressiveness on the boards. It's hard to beat a team that gets as many second chances as we did tonight.

I was on the field probably for every series and every play (in 2004), ... With this offense, I'm not, but I'm contributing. I still have to do my job to block, protect, catch the ball and run the ball. ... There are more chances for others to make plays. So, am I playing every play like last year? No. But we won.

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Mike and Chris have gotten a lot stronger, and they should help stop the run. We moved Taylor because we thought we needed a kid of his strength there. McCarter and Lane can also help at times. They will need to keep people off our linebackers to give them chances to make plays.

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We just as easily could be up 3-0. We had chances to win all three.

We just did not compete and were second best in most things, although we did create five good chances only to miss them all.

We just couldn't get a hit when it counted all night long. We had our chances. We left a ton of kids on base. It's too bad. Pius gave us chances to win and we didn't take advantage of it.

We just couldn't do anything. We'd hit it right at the goalie or push it too far. We had so many chances in the second half it wasn't funny.

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We continue to shoot poorly from the free-throw line, not even hitting 50 percent for the year. We threw the ball away too much tonight and gave Wapello second chances and too many opportunities on offense.

We feel fortunate to win. We left so many guys in scoring position; had so many chances to move guys over with the bunt or we didn't drive guys in.

We were up 3-0 and we thought we had it, ... We have to keep on working. We had our power play chances and we could not get anything out of it.

We were two up and cruising but missed chances and conceded two sloppy goals.

We were more patient at the plate today but offensively we are still not where we want to be yet. We were better yesterday, but today we had some chances to blow some innings open and we didn't get it done.

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We are beginning to understand how important (foul shooting) is in a game. We had chances to cut into the lead and we missed foul shots. They started to bring the ball inside to get to the line.

We can play attacking football. But, we can play like with Germany (defensively), and still create more chances than our opponents.

We can't be giving them chances like that, they'll capitalize. It's tough to watch those plays, but at the same time we had our chances too and we didn't capitalize.

We realize that we have to do our jobs. If we do our thing well, chances are we'll be there.

Well it doesn't matter how I feel. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. Sometimes you have so many chances and you can't score and other times you feel like every shot is going to go in. That's the way I have felt the last couple games.

Well, I mean Tiger obviously has played good enough to be considered the best ever since turning pro. I've won quite a lot more tournaments than some of the other guys, but I play a lot more, too, so I have more chances of winning.

Well, I guess the more chances you give yourself, the better chance you've got of actually winning one,

We played in Auckland, just before Auckland, and I lost, 7-6, 7-6, but I also had my chances in that match, so I knew it was going to be tough today, ... I tried to play my game and be as aggressive as I could be.

We put him down there so he could see more fastballs. We like our chances with him there.

We pushed the No. 1 team in the country. We had chances to win.

We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better understand that.

We played great, especially for the first 20 minutes. Probably one of the best 20 minutes we've played thus far. All the four lines had jump and we had a lot of chances and we totally dominated the game. It's fun to play games like this and score a lot of goals.

We dominated. The number of chances we had didn't show in the goals.

You always get chances (to score) against a good team, and the difference is that they were finishing their chances at a much higher rate than we were. Regardless of how they scored their first goal, (they had) chances before that to get on the board. That's something we're waiting to see our team put together.

We executed really well down the stretch to have a chance. It would've been nice if Andre could have missed that and given me a chance to win the game, but you never know. You don't know if we'd have gotten the rebound or been able to get the pass out. We had other chances to win.

We really want to put another win on the books. This is one of the best chances we've ever had to win this race.

We really took care of the ball in the second half (one turnover after halftime). And we had 20 points off of their turnovers. We didn't give them but four chances to do that on us.

We really played a tremendous game. We gave up scoring chances because maybe we were a little too aggressive but that same aggressiveness won us a game.

We really needed this one to keep our NCAA chances alive. It's a really big win.

We got done three times on the counter by an awfully good team and they managed to stick their chances away. We had a boat load of chances at this end and we missed some absolute sitters and it cost us in the end. But the game can be very cruel sometimes like that and we were just on the wrong end of it tonight.

We got caught watching the puck and it ended up in the back of our net. We played hard and we had enough chances to score tonight, but we have to eliminate leaving our goalie high and dry.

We finally put ourselves in a position where (Hoskins) didn't catch it. She loves to drive baseline, so you have to take your chances with the jump shot. But it wasn't just Hoskins; a lot of other people hurt us.

We finally have another opportunity with the Cardinals. We have a shot. You only get a few chances like this in your career.

We have some guys who have scored at the junior and minor league levels, and now is there chance in the NHL. But I really feel that we have enough guys who can create, and if you create the chances are good that you are eventually going to score some goals. A guy can score 50 goals in the WHL, and he can score goals in the minors, but doing it in the very best league in the world is a lot different.

We caused quite a bit of trouble on the counter attack in our last game away from home, but unfortunately we weren't able to finish them off and take any of the half a dozen chances we created which is not normal,

We couldn't quite get it done again. We played hard. But we game them too many chances and whatever chances we gave them were pretty quality ones. They did a good job taking advantage of that.

We couldn't make a mistake. We needed to play well and take our chances when they were present, but we couldn't make a mistake or it would cost us.

We played them really well, actually. We gave them a good run. We just didn't capitalize on some of our chances that we had.

We played such a great game there was no reason really to quit. We knew how good we were playing and how many chances we had. And we kept getting them every shift. We had to capitalize on one of them and that's what we did. We came out, we had a chance and we scored.

We played pretty well in the first but the two chances we gave them they happened to score, ... We stayed patient and wound up tying it in the second.

We played pretty well defensively. Sarah Wilson handled nine chances flawlessly they just got on a bit of a roll in the middle innings.

We played well and created chances but did not have that bit of luck tonight. I certainly had chances to score but the ball would not go in.

We had multiple chances to take control of the game, but we just didn't do it. Bottom line, we didn't deserve to win.

We had more chances to score than we (converted on). Obviously, we had 53 shots on goal, so we did something right tonight.

We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.

We had millions of chances to put the game away and I am extremely upset that we didn't do it,

We had lots of chances and eventually the dam broke and we ended up with a real good comeback win. We talked about not getting frustrated if didn't come easy. We didn't get off track. We stuck to the game plan.

We had huge chances today, but maybe they were too easy.

We had hoped to go in that direction more so than we were able to. It hit us late in the week, which was kind of a tough hurdle. But our chances were there.

We had great scoring chances and their goalie was great. Maybe we didn't have that edge today. But I have to finish those chances. This was the reason I was sent down (by Pittsburgh) to Wilkes-Barre. I had chances to tie the game, to win the game. I gotta do it.

We had good chances to win the game and in the end it is two points lost for us,

(We had) good chances and the puck started to go in for us. Perfect time of the year for that to start happening.

We had golden opportunities. We just didn't cash in. Those are always tough when you create as many chances as we did and don't execute.

We had ample opportunities to score all night. We just didn't bear down on our chances enough. And they capitalized on their one big one.

We had a mess of chances to score and bury this game and we didn't.

We had a lot of quality chances and we all thought it was just a matter of time. (Anderson) had been playing well against us and we talked about just getting people in front of him.

We had a lot of looks at the goal. We would like to take advantage of our opportunities a little bit more while we can because once the postseason gets here, those chances are really going to decrease.

We had a lot of good scoring chances in the first half. Then they went up 5-2 and it's pretty hard to come back against that team. I was looking for a great finish to the hockey game, but we got into trouble and they capitalized.

We had a lot of girls out, but we played very well. We dominated much of the match, we just couldn't create the quality chances we needed to finish the game.

We had a lot of chances with our top guys with the puck on their stick in the slot, and we missed the net. It wasn't meant to be, apparently. It wasn't for lack of heart. We worked hard. It just didn't go in for us tonight.

We had a lot of chances we didn't take advantage of.

We had a lot of chances to score, but we can't get a hit with the bases loaded. I think we're 0-for-the-year with the bases loaded.

We had a lot of chances in the third, and they had some great chances, also, ... The guys played really well on that 5-on-3. We played well as a team and worked hard. We worked smart with and without the puck and got away with a win.

We had a lot of chances in the overtime and John had two or three terrific saves.

We had a lot of chances early, and we just couldn't score more runs. It killed us in the end.

We had a lot of chances early against a good pitcher, but we just couldn't get anything done. That is the best I have seen (Jose) Contreras throw in quite a while.

We had a lot of chances but were wasteful in our finishing. If you don't score when you are supposed to, you pay the price.

We had a lot of chances and maybe missed the net a few times, but that's all things that we can work on in practice.

We had a lot of chances and a couple empty nets. Luongo made a few big saves on shots that are normally goals.

We had all the chances in the world. We shot ourselves in the foot each time.

We had all of those chances to pull away, to tie it up and then to win it. When it was 10-10 we had Whitaker with a wide-open shot, and you didn't even need a goalie.

We had all kinds of chances to win this game. But if you keep a good team in the game long enough, eventually they're going to find a way to beat you. And they executed in the ninth inning.

We had four or five really good chances at the end. They didn't let themselves get down in that quicksand too far and I was proud of that.

We had five or six good chances to score.

We had two chances to get rebounds. We did everything we needed to do.