Tony MacAulay
Tony MacAulay
bump others road small
That was a small bump in the road when considering what others went through.
becomes deal glass hand hoping time
We have to deal with the hand that we?re dealt. We have to look at it as the glass being half-full. This is a challenge. A lot of times when you?re short, it becomes a time to learn. That?s what we?re hoping is going to happen.
dealing digest food good halfway learn looking peak plate point start turning
Everything?s a turning point now. We?re looking at the halfway mark. It?s more of dealing with what?s on our plate. We don?t want to put too much on our plate right now, because A, we?re going to get indigestion, and B, we?re going to get fat. We don?t want to look at this as getting too good too quickly. We want to digest our food and learn and start to peak at the right times.
almost call friendly last practice reminder talked
Every day this week, before practice or after practice, we talked about what we did last weekend. It was only as a friendly reminder as to what we need to do, almost as if we need a wake-up call every day.
best discount looking motivated ourselves team trying
We?re trying to get ourselves motivated to be the best team that we can. That?s really all we?re looking at right now. There?s some things that went well tonight, and we?re not going to discount them by any means.
continue finish learning lost periods salt start strong wound
You have to start periods strong and finish periods strong. All is not lost here. They?re going to continue to keep battling. It?s all part of the learning experience. It?s salt in the wound when you lose, but it?s murder if you don?t learn from it.
relief sigh small stepping stone
There?s not a big sigh of relief now that we?re in (the playoffs). It?s just another small stepping stone of where we want to be.
accept bring closer directions learn
We have to learn something from today. Everybody?s going to go in different directions right now, because of how they?re going to accept this loss. But it has to bring us closer together.
dictate exciting forward great happened looking personally proud season summer
We were looking forward to the season and we had a lot to be proud of in Beaumont. We had a great summer of recruiting. That part was exciting for me personally and professionally, but I can't dictate what happened in Texas.
breathed dressing immediate job life luke played shown wants
I thought Luke played great. He wanted to come in and make an immediate impact. He?s shown that he wants a job. He breathed some new life into our dressing room.
dust everybody hockey nowhere ourselves people quicker running start
We have nowhere to go but up. Everybody realizes that. The quicker we dust ourselves off and start running again, the better our hockey team?s going to be. Are people (ticked) off? Yeah, they?re pretty (ticked) off.
chip everybody extending guys learning sign starting stepping team themselves
Guys are stepping up. Everybody has to chip in. They?re learning and they?re extending themselves for each other. That?s the sign of a team that?s starting to become very cohesive.
accept chances dressing factor factors fight irritating losing period room score
Losing the first period 3-1 was an irritating factor to me. We had some chances to score and there were some things that were out of our control. Those are the factors that we want to fight and we will fight. Everyone in the dressing room is going to fight together. We don?t want to accept mediocrity.
chances games good guys playing playoff
We were right there. We had good enough chances to do it. Guys were in the right spot. We?re playing playoff games now. That was a playoff game.