Forwards Quotes

You want to see what we saw last year, that he was kind of a fireball out on the court. We feel we can get more out of him, being one of the better four-men (power forwards) around. We expect him to be more consistent but we need to see more zip and enthusiasm out of him. - Jim Rosborough

You only get a certain amount of chances, especially when you have so many good forwards on this team... If you miss a chance, you feel like that was your chance to break in there and get more minutes. When you do miss, it's kind of stressful and it can build up. So when I helped out with that goal the other day, it was a big relief. - Jamil Walker

You look up and see 40 shots against, but I don't really remember too many of them being grade-A chances. The shots were from the outside, the defense did a great job and our forwards competed like heck. - Ron Wilson

You look at some of how young our forwards are, but they've really stepped to the forefront and made the difference in us winning and losing hockey games. And our goaltending has been out of this world. - Dallas Drake

You know as well as I do that you can't win consistently in this league without quality play from your [centers]. So they've got to give us something this year. And we'll have to mix and match a bit, but when your forwards and shooting guards are blocking most of your shots, that should tell you something. - Mike Woodson

You have to give them credit. They pressured us a lot more and didn't allow us to do what we wanted to do, use our forwards and go from the inside out. - Derek Wright

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. - Tiffeny Milbrett

You can look at the performance of our backs but our forward won us the game. Our forwards gave us the platform. - Mark McCall

With Tom, we can look to control the puck and set our forwards up more quickly. His ability to score gives the rest of our offense more open looks. - Mark Osiecki

With this system we're playing, we're expecting that we're going to have to sub quite a bit, especially with the forwards and midfielders because they're playing the full field. They're playing up-and-down. - Bob Derr