We had seven seniors, including five who were four-year players, and had lost only two key skaters from the year before.

We don't have the depth we usually have. We have four or five good seniors, but the key is whether the younger guys can play.

Being here last year and having six seniors returning and seven players that played last year made a difference. Our experience played a key role.

We should be dominating next year. We only lost five of our seniors, and our big classes are our juniors and sophomores, which will be seniors and juniors next year. So I think we're going to all step up, and it'll be amazing to watch.

In the last calendar year I've seen him seven times. What makes him different from a lot of players is his ability to compete. I've never seen him tired. I've seen him play injured ... .

We're very pleased with our rookies. We graduated seven seniors last year, and we knew heading into the season that some of our freshmen needed to step up.