Quotes by Pat McDonald

“I think it probably should just be torn down. Its probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.”

“It is a viable program because it opens up the doors of opportunities for emerging businesses. The issue is, simply without a program like this they wont look at those emerging businesses; they would have no reason to.”

“It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.”

“Its going to be a game of opportunities and taking advantage of those opportunities. Both teams are very similar in what they do, playing good team defense.”

“Hes our leader out there. We do depend on him to make a big save. Hes pretty sound position-wise and he sees the puck and sees the game and anticipates well.”

“We changed things up a bit and had three forwards playing down low. It wasnt drawn up that way, but it worked.”

“(Theres) a lot of pride in what youth hockey does; it makes our job that much easier at the high school level.”

“Im getting really tired of that. This one is tough to swallow. We were so close, but I guess its not meant to be.”

“By the third overtime, theres only so much coaching you can do. I just told them to play hard. The kids know what to do. They were having fun with it, they were smiling, they knew they were part of history.”

“Once they got the lead they were able to clamp down on us.”