They took it to us pretty good in game one. I told the guys after that game that they kind of made a statement for the district, and we'd have to see how we'd progress throughout the year.

We hit the ball pretty well. It kind of got contagious. This put us in the driver's seat.

I think that's a big key, and it's been like that a lot for us. We try to generate some offense with our defense ... it's a lot more fun to shoot wide open lay ups than to shoot (while being guarded).

This is new territory for us. We're pretty excited.

It has become pretty clear to us that a lot of people have significant damage but not at 50 percent.

We've had a pretty good power play all year until recently. We've struggled, and it's found us. Our penalty killing has not been great all year, so we've really needed our power play to come through.