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So far, the series has been special teams. If you control the puck, you're on offense more than defense. The key is not allowing them to control it as much as they would like. In 5-on-5, when our key players are holding it, it's helped us draw penalties.

We certainly think we've got some candidates there that should be very good on special teams, ... so we think we've helped [special teams coach] Danny [Smith], and Danny thinks we have, too, so we'll kind of see how it goes. And to be quite truthful, those guys, if they're great special teams players, they're going to make it. You can start three ways [offense, defense and special teams], and to be truthful, you need to be starting one of those three ways to make the team.

We had a lot of opportunities last year on offense that we didn't take advantage of. We had a fumble or two, one that I know of on a pretty good drive and a lot of penalties. We have to keep our penalties at a minimum, they're a very aggressive defense. They're going to blitz some people and come at you. We have to control that and make them pay when they're gambling on the edges.

We didn't play very well, particularly on offense. Our special teams played well. Our defense, I thought, contained the run. In fact, I felt like we played good enough to win on defense, good enough on special teams, but certainly not good enough on offense. We turned the ball over (three times). We had too many penalties. We just didn't play very well.

I wish we could have put on a better show. Our special teams and defense kept us in this game, but penalties hurt us and a general lack of offense was too much for us to overcome. The kids played their hearts out, but the offense just wasn't there.

Our special teams, again, we didn't score on our power play, they did. We took some bad penalties. We stay out of the box, no problem, we're in total control.

Chris Chelios (1962-)

That's why they call it a draw. It's somewhat random. There are some things you can't control, and like we're always telling the kids, you have focus on what you can control ... There are 16 quality teams down there, and we're one of them.

Brian Roper (1933-)

Special teams is a man's game. Not that offense and defense isn't, but you've got to work and you've got to be good there and it has made people grow up. Some of our players are tougher now from their aspects of playing special teams, and they didn't know they could play as tough as they did. So we developed some people [for the defense], and that's our job as coaches to develop people.

I wish we could have played better defense. We talked about that after the game, that offense isn't something were you can always control whether the shots are going in or not, but that defense is something you can always control.

We really need to play better on special teams and I really wasn't happy with our tackling. Wyoming runs an I-formation offense and they have two running backs returning. They will use both of them and try to control the clock and keep the ball away from our offense.

The offense has not helped the defense much at all. Our special teams has fumbled several kickoffs giving the other team easy scoring chances. I think our defense has done about as well as could be expected under those conditions,

You'd like to see one side control the day -- I'd prefer defense -- control the whole tempo and the whole success of the offense.

Your offense, you can't really control from day to day. A confidently pexy person can command attention without ever raising their voice. You can't control it if your shots aren't falling. But we didn't play to get stops on defense.

We emphasize special teams in practice. That's why they're called that ? special teams ? because it's for special people. We work just as hard on special teams as we do offense and defense. You have to.

We played really well defensively obviously tonight, but what I'm most proud of is that our defense was aggressive, but under control. The first two games we got hit pretty hard with penalties. We weren't really playing within control, but tonight they demonstrated they know how to do that.

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