Andy McDonald Quotations

He definitely has that intensity on the ice, a desire to win. When you see that it's contagious, everyone follows him. He's the leader. You learn something every day watching him on the ice.

We have a pretty good balance of new guys and guys who have been here before. You look to the guys with experience to tell you what to expect. It should be good.

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

It's always good to get the lead early. We've struggled a bit with that this year. Tonight I thought we played well once we got the lead and we shut them down.

The hard work of numerous volunteers from the end user community, working in concert with technology suppliers and OEM's, was very apparent this week. Our affiliation with ISA in 2005 has been a major contributor to our progress. In this past year, we have applied more resources, increased the extent of our collaborations, heightened our visibility, and secured our future. With ISA's assistance, we have brought a technical director on board to help facilitate our work, developed strategic business plans for each of our working groups, started the rejuvenation of our manufacturing infrastructure group, implemented a new web site and a series of email lists, and launched a web seminar program to fulfill our educational mission.

I try not to think about it too much. Usually if you do the other things, the little things, the one-on-one battles, and focus on some of the other things, things take care of themselves. When you're on a streak, you try not to evaluate it too much. You just go play your game.

I think I'm the most surprised out of anyone.

We've put ourselves in fairly good shape now. We're not in the top eight, but we're right there. If we want to do it, we can do it.

It's disappointing. I know we came back to tie it when we were down by a goal and go into overtime, but right now that's not good enough. The way this conference is going, it's probably going to be a point difference for that last playoff spot.

It's disappointing. I know we came back to tie it, but right now that's not good enough. We had the 4-on-3 (power play) in overtime and had some chances. It's a bit of a letdown.