It's not the ideal way you'd like to prepare for a game, but it's that switch -- that competitive juice -- that just turns on and you're ready to go.

Once the puck drops, it's like a switch goes on, you're ready to compete. It's not the ideal way you would like to prepare for a game but the competitive juices just turn on and you're ready to go.

It doesn't matter whether you get beat 100-0 or 1-0, it all counts as one game. That's the way we look at it. We did some good things the other night, and obviously we did some bad things. We'll build on the good things and correct the bad things and come out with a better effort.

We definitely prepare really hard for every team and these teams [Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt] are really competitive. Every game we have a target on our backs as the No. 3 team in the nation and everyone gets ready for us, so we have to get ready for everyone else.

The week preceding the game is just as important, if not more important, to prepare yourself mentally to make sure you know the ins and outs of the opposition. It's all about getting ready for Jacksonville. It's a one-game season.

I prepare like I'm playing even when I'm not. When you're sitting on the bench and watching the game ... you look at yourself and say, 'How would I have handled that shot?' The other night in Tampa Bay, I'm watching Louie stop these shots and I'm like, 'I don't think I would have gotten that one, or that one, or that one.