I didn't want to put (Conner) back out there. I held him off until the last two minutes of the game. I needed him for face-off wins. He is a tremendous talent. It's tough for him to pull the reins back but he did it for us.

Scotty's a heck of a player. He works hard. He is the stereotypical Sewickley hockey player. He does what I ask. His legs never stop. He never takes a shift off. Every shift is going to be as hard as the last one. That's what I need from every one of these guys.

It's fun when you have this much talent to work with. It's odd in single-A hockey where you just don't have that depth, then you get on a bench with four lines of nothing but power players.

Every kid went out there and did what they were supposed to do when needed, whether it was one shift or if they didn't come off the ice. I can't tell you how happy I am with the way they worked as a unit.

We want to see if we can coexist. These are questions that no one can effectively answer at this point.

I think it's obvious, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we are faced with some formidable challenges. It's difficult to go forward when you are ejected from your home venue. ... First and foremost in our thinking is that we want - in every way possible - to conduct our event in the state of Louisiana.