Scott Sandelin Quotes (14 Quotes)

We took things for granted and if there's any blame to take for that, I'll take it. I can tell you it's not going to happen this year or ever again, ... It was disappointing but a season like that is great for re-evaluation. You learn from it.

Our goal is still to get to the (league) Final Five, so we need to win some games before the playoffs and build some confidence.

We have seen glimpses of being a pretty decent team. But a lot of it is the sum of all parts. When they're together, we can be pretty good. When they're not, we get exposed.

We know we'll have to be patient as the younger players get comfortable with this level of hockey, but this is also a pretty driven group, ... This group can do a lot of good things.

We need performances like that and like we had against Wisconsin. At this time of the season you look to your older players to lead the way. Isaac has had a good career and we'd like to give him the chance to get to 61 wins.

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

North Dakota was the better team. They had more jump, more passion, more want. They were hungry and we didn't play very well, especially on defense.

I'm not concerned about injuries as much as complacency, but I don't see that happening,

I thought Nate settled in after that goal and was OK. But it's another one of those games that you walk away from and the scoreboard says 4-0, and you know it's closer than that. It's been the story of our season.

With a younger team there will be tough times and adversity. The key will be how we respond and how we get through those situations.

We had our chances in the 5-on-3 to maybe get back in the game, but we missed the net. From that point on, Minnesota got the momentum. They seem like a very confident team with a lot of weapons and they don't get enough credit for how well they play defensively. We're at different ends of the spectrum right now.

You always talk about a team forming an identity. You know, I don't know if we have yet. It's kind of a mystery.

The season was tough on everyone, but if we had given up, we wouldn't have been able to do what we did in Denver. The team pulled together and got a chance to play in the Final Five. It was a somewhat positive ending to a not-so-good second half of the season.

I'd like to get rid of the first five minutes, but the next 35 I thought we played pretty well. It's tough to play catch-up hockey.