Although they have lost two of their first three games, this is going to be their first home game of the season,

At this time of the year, any time you can play at home, whether it's your playoff games or an NCAA game, I think it's a benefit to your hockey club. If you get that home game, whether it's some years maybe at the Kohl Center or maybe at the Cap Ice Center or at the Eagle's Nest (in Verona), it's a good thing.

The only thing we could want more is to have these two games at home. Since we didn't take care of it at home earlier in the year, we have to find the fortitude to do it on the road now.

It's not a good situation that we are in. Everybody knows how important these next four games are at home. It might be our season. That's the way I look at it. I thought we started playing better in the last two games. It's just that the results are not there.

We've dictated the game with all our home games recently, barring the D.C. one. I think against this team it's going to present a good opportunity to show some good offensive soccer and put them under a lot of pressure and kind of redeem ourselves for losing to them earlier in the season.

We won the conference championship, made it to the Upper State semifinals and won two playoff games at home. Our players deserve the credit because they worked hard and played as a team.