We think we're at a reasonable level at this point. We don't have any explosive plan to go out and hack away. We've taken a lot of whacks at that. Right now we're looking to get stability -- stability in our product cycle, stability in our manpower, stability in our plant situation.
Quotes about whacks (4 Quotes)
We got a couple of whacks on the nose early in the season to wake us up a bit and show us we had to work a bit harder. Now we're looking up to the teams above us, not down to the ones below.
We battled hard. Physically, I thought we controlled that part of the game. We had chances at the end -- we had two whacks at a puck a few feet from the goal line -- but it came down to special teams again. Most of our problems this year have come on the power play.
A football helmet gives you an awful lot of protection, ... but you don't have to be a doctor or an engineer or even a football player to realize that the helmet does not block out all the measured force produced when some 300-pound player with a hand the size of a Christmas ham whacks you in the head dozens of times a game, season after season.