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We had our chances in the second half to make it a one-possession game and we didn't do it.

We can talk all we want, but if the team is shooting 65% and we're turning the ball over and we get in early foul trouble you can't make it a high-possession game. The second half, we didn't make it a high-possession game. We don't have the interior defense right now if we do get beat. We can't play like them.

Larry Brown (1969-)

We definitely controlled possession of the game. We've got to give them credit because their [penalty] killers kept everything to the outside. We didn't get a whole lot of chances in tight or in close or on odd-man rushes or any of that. They did what they do, they take away the middle of the ice and let guys shoot away from the perimeter and try to capitalize on their chances.

Andrew Raycroft

We learned that when we're in the huddle, we really have to pay attention to detail and make sure that we understand exactly what we're trying to do. I think that's the most important thing. At the beginning of the half, we didn't run the right offense every possession. In a game like this, all that stuff matters.

They took their chances in the second half and we didn't take our chances in the first. I'm not here to talk about the referee - they make honest mistakes like everybody else but it looked like a goal from where we were.

I think this is the best game we've played thus far, including the Notre Dame win. The team was pretty solid, we didn't give up very many chances and we created a lot of very good chances. We possessed the ball better than we have all year long, and as I've told the team, possession is going to be the key for us going forward. Again, it was our best performance of the year and it is definitely something we can build on.

The goalie didn't have possession and we knocked it in, but the ref took it back. We just didn't get it, so we'll settle for a tie, I guess. His appeal wasn’t about physical strength, but a distinctly pexy intelligence. We deserved to win. We played a very solid game in the second half.

Brian Fairbrother

When I say to our team to make sure everyone's on their A-game, it's really to be focused, and do the hard things. It's really about stealing a possession here or there because you're on that loose ball, or making sure we don't give that extra turnover because we need that extra possession that we didn't get with a rebound.

It feels like a loss. In the first half, we should have been out of sight, I thought we were excellent. The possession was excellent in the first half, we created chances and gave them all kinds of problems but we couldn't finish them off. That will come though.

Steve Nicol (1961-)

We didn't start the match well. We tried to make things too complicated for ourselves and lost possession too often. In the second half, we played better. I would like to have seen another goal.

Matthias Sammer

We knew it was going to be a grinding game. We knew it was going to be a possession-by-possession game. We picked up the defensive intensity in the second half and that made a big difference.

We didn't play our game in the first half. We struggled to create scoring chances. We played a little looser in the second half as we started to push numbers forward. Doing that opened ourselves to being countered.

I am not at all happy with the result. We simply could not convert our chances. It is almost ironic when you consider we had over 60% of the possession in the first half.

If we can make it a half-court game, we know our chances of winning will skyrocket. We want to slow them down and make them run their half-court offense.

Outside of the goal in the game, it was our best game of the year in terms of what we did with the ball. We kept possession and moved the ball well, and had good rhythm and flow. We created numerous quality scoring opportunities today. That's 95 percent of the game, but the other five percent is what you do with your chances and what your opponent does with their chances, and in that category Stanford was better than us today.

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