Joe Battista
Joe Battista
Joe Battistais an American ice hockey coach and sports executive. Since 2013 he has served as the Vice President of Hockey-Related Businesses for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League...
couple guys together weeks
Those guys have only been together for a couple of weeks and they look like they've been together all year.
defense faster gotten physical played special teams
When we played them at Rhode Island, they were faster than us. They were more physical than us. They played better defense than us. They had better special teams than us. But we've gotten a lot better in all those areas.
spent week
We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.
future team
I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.
care difficult four games
I think it's awfully difficult for one goalie to play four games in four days. I don't care who you are. It's very difficult to do that.
average crowd decide hollywood move ourselves team
We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.
island mature paid younger
Well it could be. Rhode Island has been the younger team, and they matured. They're an older, more mature team, and it paid off.
anybody blame fate job ourselves outcome
We have our fate in our own hands, and I like that. We can't blame anybody but ourselves with the outcome of the weekend. Hopefully, we'll be patting ourselves on the back if we get the job done.
baptism far fire passed test
We did that on purpose. We wanted to give them baptism by fire and I'd say so far we passed the test so far.
blocking door good hockey offensive shots slammed three whatever
The three of them slammed the door on a very good offensive hockey team, blocking shots and doing whatever they had to do.
angles playing
Anthony, you're playing your angles correctly. If you weren't, those go in.
focus hurts
I know it hurts now, but you have to focus on what we've accomplished.
bad good team
I just feel so bad for this team; they just couldn't get a break. It's a young team, so it's going to be a good team in the future.
beating care describe experience favor feels fired illinois ohio scared somebody until
Ohio did us a favor by beating Illinois twice, now we have to take care of business. I could try to describe to somebody what it feels like to be in these kind of games, but until they're out there -- you just have to experience it. I don't want them too fired up, but I don't want them scared either.