Mark Johnson Quotes on Games (6 Quotes)

Well, Bauer is what we like to call in the coaching ranks the whole package. She loves to go to school here and loves to play hockey, and she is very good at both. Bauer is a leader on and off the ice and she comes prepared for practice and games, and it shows on the ice.

Momentum is a big thing in hockey. We know that these games are important to us in order to keep on the stretch we got going, so we just need to play our game and not worry about anything else.

Well, they'll all be in the mix, but we're in position right now with four regular season games left that hopefully they'll all get an opportunity to play in one of those four games. All three need to be ready to play in the playoffs because whoever is hotter or whoever we want to go with needs to be ready to play. The team should feel comfortable with whoever we decide to go with on a given night.

In the first game, the puck went in real quick. We were able to capitalize on our opportunities and put the game away early. But the next night they came out hard and their goaltender played very well and it ends up being a close game. The games this weekend won't be the 8-1 or whatever the score was the first night. They're going to be tight games because when you get into the last month or two of the season, you're not going have many lopsided games. Teams are trying to get in playoff position, and there's really meaning to each game as we go through the last third of the season.

Well, we've been pretty consistent with our statements and what we want to do as a group, and that gets better each weekend. We've certainly made some strides in the early part of September to where we are now, but now it's time to elevate the bar a little bit more. The team has done some real nice things up to this point, and we've won a lot of hockey games, but now you got to keep watering it and put a little fertilizer on it and grow with it.

You don't change anything in practice. Yesterday and today were no different than from what we did in October. It comes down to execution in the games.