We concentrated on trying to slow their speed down. We had a game plan and executed it in all three zones. They knew how big this was for us.

The kids did an exceptional job at trying to slow a very high-powered, skilled and fast Tri-Town offense. I think, on this night, our kids had it in their heart we were going to lay it all on the ice.

We did a good job in the neutral zone. We allowed them to dump 50-50 pucks into the zone as opposed to using their speed to turn our defense.

We kept pressing. We haven't shut the engines off until the last buzzer all season. It worked for us today.

We can play better. But I think we've established a pretty good balance to our game and the kids believe in the system.

They carry a lot of the weight. But the great thing is we're starting to get scoring distribution throughout the lines.