Jackie Barto Quotations

We've been working on our movement and we've worked on some plays on the power play. We're definitely getting opportunities, we just need the puck to go in for us. We're positive that that's going to happen this weekend.

We need to get it going. We need to score on it. That's your objective on the power play. Puck movement needs to result in a goal.

Erika had an outstanding weekend. She was solid. She made some big saves when she needed to, and she was just very steady back there.

I feel like the message we want to send is that we're going to be moving up the standings board. Going into Wisconsin and playing 120 minutes of solid hockey is our goal. We want to go out and get some league points this weekend.

This weekend we have to compete hard in our games with Minnesota, and go for it. We're on home ice for the next six games and we want to take advantage of that.

It's the start of the new year. We're coming off of a break - we haven't played since Dec. 10. So you want to start the new year off on a positive note, and I think a big goal for our team in the second half is to play better defensive hockey.

We changed our power play today. We went with something totally new and they executed it well - we didn't even have a chance to practice it.

I thought we played hard. I thought that maybe we had a few mistakes in the first period. I thought the second period was outstanding. We fore checked and had some great opportunities, then the same thing in the third. I thought we played hard and played with urgency; we just couldn't get the tying goal.

I think they (the team) have confidence coming off the sweep. I think they're excited to be home. And hopefully a lot of the people in the area will come and support us and we can play the hockey we want to play here in our building.

I always feel like we work hard out there. I felt like this was a win that we really needed as a team today. We kind of had our backs up against the wall. We had to go out and get it done today. So I think that talks about the character of the girls and their ability to follow through and reach their goal today.