Our guys battled and I am not going to let this outcome diminish how far we've come in 2005. We'll bounce back in 2006.

I am not upset with this outcome. We got a good lead and they battled back. It was good for us to have to respond to that and we did.

Not to diminish their win, but we had some guys go down tonight on top of the other guys that we have that are beat up right now. The Spurs are a great team. They are long, they play together and they are a deep team. They are built to win a championship.

Our guys battled. Their guy was just a little better.

The guys did a great job of keeping the puck in on that first goal. Then they kept banging away and we got rolling from there.

With Hurricane Katrina, our schedule was very hectic. But our guys battled through all of those times this season. After the hurricane, we became a closer football team and we rallied around each other.