As a group of guys we all came up with the point that we've got to start working hard in practice like we did in the beginning of the year.

It's going to be hard to replace those guys. But we still have a good group coming back.

You can't pinpoint one thing that's wrong. You can say a number of different things.

Our big goal is the NCAA championship, and if we're playing our best hockey at the end of the year, we can definitely do that. Everybody on our team knows that we can. We know we can be the best team in the nation if we play like it.

Everybody's writing us off because (they say) we're a bad second-half team. You know what? We want to take those comments and prove them wrong. That's unbelievable. We just haven't taken that to heart. We need to start taking that to heart as a team here.

We're basically starting over with the boys, but it is a good, hard-working group of guys this season.