Gary Defina Quotes

Nobody expected us to be here from the beginning of the season. We had a heck of a run at the end of the season. - Gary Defina

It's kind of the same as the beginning of the year. It's a young team with jitters at the beginning of the playoffs. They don't have a lot of experience. But it's good to get that one behind us. - Gary Defina

It's huge. Like we said, we started off slow. We knew we were going to have some growing pains, but we're peaking at the right time. We're right where we want to be. We have some momentum and we're playing well. - Gary Defina

It was a great hockey game. It was fun for us to watch. There were two evenly matched teams, and it could have gone either way. - Gary Defina

In about half of our games, we've had bad first periods, but not tonight. We came out flying, and that's what we need to do from here on out. - Gary Defina

I am pleased. There were a lot of good things, but a lot of things we need to work on, too. They've got to play better than that against Cheyenne tomorrow and they know it. Too many penalties, too many stupid penalties from not skating. But overall, you've got to be pleased with the outcome. - Gary Defina

His skills are top shelf. He's a gifted player. He's got that God-given talent that you can't teach. This year, he took on more of a leadership role. He knew that was expected of him. Obviously, he had his ups and downs, but he's going to learn from what happened to him this year and be in a better position next year. - Gary Defina

He's the first one on the ice and the last one off every time we skate. He wants it so bad - he really wants to improve. - Gary Defina

He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored. - Gary Defina

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