Ryan Kolb Quotes (11 Quotes)

That darn first period. If we had a game we could start without the first period, we'd be in business.

I was real happy with the way we responded after falling behind early. We've really done that all year long. We haven't gotten down on ourselves when we've fallen behind. I think we answered their goal with one of our own about a minute and a half later. Once we got that first goal, it kind of ignited a fire for us the rest of the night.

The goals we did score came off things we've been working on in practice. I'm real pleased that things we work on show up when it's time.

They came out strong but we kept our composure. It was a very back-and-forth game and exciting to watch.

We knew Mitchell was going to come out strong. That has been their game plan all year. On the other side, we came out struggling and were a little flat-footed.

We kind of fell in a rut with the penalties. They were what I called 'lazy penalties' where we don't want to go out and work hard.

We came on strong in the third period. We pulled together and showed a lot of heart. We just ran into a hot goalie.

It wasn't our night tonight. The pucks didn't bounce our way. We need to play better at this time of year and we just aren't doing it.

That's who I wanted to play first. We didn't want to play Watertown again coming off a tough loss to them. Mitchell will be a pretty exciting game for our opening game.

As far as knowing the plays we've been running, we're as prepared as we're going to be. We'll take it one game at a time, one period at a time. We set goals for each period and that works best for us.

Brookings has had a real good streak in the last few years. They have a good program. Sioux Falls has been coming on lately. They worked their way into fourth in the league standings in the last month and a half. They were seeded below us for most of the season.