Kevin Sneddon
Kevin Sneddon
dangerous forward hockey involved lines playing skill top tyler
Their defensemen are dangerous and get involved in the offense. There's skill in the forward lines and Tyler Sims is one of the top goalies in Hockey East. They're playing really well.
bad bang chance change clear five front goal guy huge joe line minutes mistakes net open saves wide
We made two huge mistakes tonight, a bad line change on their first goal and a guy wide open in front of the net with five minutes to go. Joe made two huge saves (on the game-winner); we had a chance to clear it but with no sense of urgency, and they bang it in.
couple lines shut team top
We are what we are, a team that has a couple of lines that can score. The other two better be able to shut down the lines they're going up against, as should the top lines.
call faith knew phone
I knew from the first phone call with Jaime that he was going to be the person I could put a lot of faith into, and responsibility.
best biggest couple east hockey infamous respect road teams top trips weekend
The biggest thing is we want ... to play our style. A couple of road trips in Hockey East -- the BU game, the UNH weekend -- we didn't play to the best of our ability. A lot of that, I think, is we give teams too much respect because they're part of the infamous top four.
attitude fearless great knock opportunity ourselves
I want to see us go in with a fearless attitude and play our style. If we do that, we give ourselves a great opportunity to knock them off.
both defense effort great knew last obviously played playoff pleased series teams time year
Not to go back in time but if you look at the playoff series last year both teams played exceptional defense and that is how we wanted to play tonight. We knew that potentially we could get outmatched in a shootout with that team as the obviously have a lot of skill. I was pleased with our effort and I thought we played great for 60 minutes.
last
Everything we did well last week, we didn't do well tonight.
angry approach couple game guys hope minutes strong style teams walk
We wanted to approach this as a playoff-style game and you can't let teams walk all over you for a couple of minutes in a 60-minute game. I hope our guys are going to be angry by it and come back strong (today).
against bad bounce good luck puck seemed
Cory Schneider is a very good goaltender and we seemed to have some kind of bad puck luck. It seemed to bounce against us. He was very, very good, particularly in the 5-on-3 and some other opportunities we had (in the third).
again calls ourselves tonight
Again tonight things just didn't go our way. We had some unfortunate calls that didn't go our way and put ourselves in a hole.
dipping great played point time toes urgency water woke
(Providence) played with a great sense of urgency from the start, and we were kind of dipping our toes in the water to see what the temperature was. But we woke up at that point and played really, really well from the time they scored to the end of the game.
against best fantastic hockey played playing points realize time year
We want the two points (tonight). As a coach, you want to realize you're playing your best hockey this time of the year and I thought we played fantastic hockey against BU in a playoff-type setting.
anyone asked both excellent extremely playing setting stronger teams three tournament win
It's probably one of the stronger tournament fields. In setting up a tourney, I asked for three teams to come to the tournament where anyone can win it. Dartmouth's playing extremely well and Bemidji and Clarkson are both excellent teams.