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We took the penalties that allowed them to have the five-on-three.

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

We took too many penalties in the third. It's really hard to win when you take that many penalties.

We took two bad penalties that put us in the hole there.

Just stupid, people doing dumb stuff, me included. I've seen games that are dump and stupid and sloppy, and you get your (butt) kicked. To have five turnovers and however many penalties we had and still have a chance to win the game at the end? It shows we can be a darned good team if we get our head out of our butt.

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

Like I told my kids, what a great game to build (upon) going into next year. I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game.

Marquette is a very fast and disciplined hockey team and they gave us a lot of trouble. We had a solid game plan, but didn't execute it. Plus, we had 12 minor penalties and you can't survive against a team like Marquette with that many penalties.

Some of the younger guys like (freshmen) Mike Campbell and Jeff Gabriel really stepped up today and filled in nicely. I don't mind so much that we take penalties because we have good penalty killers.

suffers badly by being only about increased penalties and not enough about both increased penalties and worrying about how to prevent crimes before they happen.

Players are creatures of habit and will revert back to some of the instinctive things they do, so you have to be prepared, I think, to be killing off 10-12 penalties a game and getting 10 or 12 power plays. You do the math.

Part of managing Alberta's parks and recreation areas is ensuring the proper enforcement tools are in place, ... We did a comprehensive review and have brought the penalties for violating parks regulations more in line with penalties for offences under other Alberta laws.

I think there are a small number of very powerful members of the House who have never supported increased penalties for drunk driving and they don't support them now.

Our guys are hustling; we played well, we scored five goals so that?s a good thing. Penalties hurt us. We had three penalties in the third period. Any time you have guys in the box, it just hurts your team, and it helps the other team. That?s what happened in the third period.

Penalties and turnovers absolutely killed us. We only punted twice in the game.

Penalties and turnovers hurt us and we're at the point where we have to get better or start to slide a bit. Our kids have a positive attitude and will use it to go on into the right direction.

Penalties and turnovers probably put us in a hole more than anything else. It's a matter of focus and discipline, and penalties and turnovers really created the difference.

Penalties are going to kill plays, kill drives and kill momentum and they did that to us (Sunday).

Penalties drive him crazy. He hates it. And he lets you know about it, too. He gets in your face and expresses how much he doesn't like you doing whatever you did. He does it during the game and after.

Penalties got us into trouble in the second period and they capitalized on that.

Penalties had been an issue and we were much better tonight. But our discipline in the last five minutes, we really have to clean that up.

Penalties handed out over the years have reflected that the level of concealment will be a factor, along with the size of the breach, in the penalty.

Penalties have been a problem for us all season long.

Penalties have cost us big yards, ... I mean double-digit each week. We can't be doing it. Guys have to be accountable for their actions.

Penalties have cost us big yards. I mean double-digit each week. We can't be doing it. Guys have to be accountable for their actions.

Penalties hurt us and I think our guys understand it, ... but they're high strung, and they should be high strung. I don't think you can be successful without being high strung. I think yesterday it didn't help us being high strung.

Penalties hurt us. We're playing them even, then they score three power-play goals to go up 4-1. That was the difference.

Penalties in importune times were exactly the difference.

Penalties in the running game, pre-snap penalties, that irks me. Because to me, that's not focusing. You're not focusing on your job and you're undisciplined. You need to take care of your business.

Penalties in the second half certainly helped us out, and we got a big turnover from Vince. Overall, it's the first game, and we've got a lot of work to do in all areas.

Penalties killed us all year even after being addressed. Guys need to adjust to calls.

Penalties killed us and it started probably from me. We fell apart. And it's what good teams are not supposed to do.

Penalties killed us and mental errors. I always say the team that plays the smartest wins and that's what happened tonight. We didn't play very smart.

Penalties like that -- that's why we're not a championship team. In order for us to be where we want to be and where we're capable of going, we have to stop doing this dumb stuff. We have to stop doing these dumb penalties and get our act together.

Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.

Penalties with the sticks and things like that are because we're not aggressive enough. If you're chasing people from behind, hooking them, you're going to get called all night.

I think they played a very good game and totally brought it to us. On the other hand, we didn't help ourselves with dumb penalties and mistakes. . . . People were making a lot of mental lapses. And when you start first and 15, which we probably did three or four times, it's hard to make that ground up against a good defense like Carolina.

I think they're going to finish every check that they have on me, and that's fine. But I think they took a couple penalties on us, and that's the frustrating part. There's nothing wrong with good clean hockey and good physical hockey. But when it gets like that, I just try to keep my head up and protect myself.

I thought offensively there was too much pressure on Donovan. We didn't do well on third-and-long situations and we can do better there. We had too many penalties at costly times during drives. I thought defensively we did enough there to win the game. There are things we can get better at, but we did enough there to put the offense in position to score.

I stressed the point at halftime that we had 110 yards in penalties and Duluth had 100 total yards of offense. I told our guys that if we kept that up, we were going to have a hard time winning the game.

It depends on what the goalie is going to do. You react to him. We gave up some bad penalties and the Blues capitalized on all of their chances, and that's what hockey is all about.

It depends on what they are. We had some guys trying to get off blocks and the (opposing) guy spun and we got called for something. Some holds may get called or they may not. All in all, the penalties jumped up and got us at the worst times. We'll address that.

It is important to protect the rights of the athletes properly because the penalties are severe in the end.

Late in the second quarter, we had some key penalties and some breakdowns that cost us.

I think what caused a lot of our penalties is we were standing around watching. I thought we were on our heels most of the night, and they have a great power play.

I think there were penalties on both sides of the ball, and that's part of the deal. That's part of the deal, if you're playing pass coverage. There are jams, bangs. We're trying to eliminate them. I think we've done better over the past couple of weeks. We've just got to keep working at it.

I think there's a growing realization or acknowledgment in the Legislature that we simply can't afford to get tougher and tougher on penalties every session. Enhancing penalties may have been politically popular in the past, but we simply don't have the money or the (prison) space now to do it.

Our Achilles' heel has been killing penalties at home. They get a power play goal and it's a 2-1 hockey game. You get the number of points they have as a team by hard work, and we knew they weren't going to quit by any means.

Our PK was good, and not to take anything away from Philly, but they were last in the league on the power play. You still have to kill off the penalties we took. Our power play got us one goal in the first game and nothing in the second. That's one area we strive to improve.

Our team let penalties and turnovers get to us a little bit. We had a couple drive killers with turnovers and we had a couple foolish penalties and you can't do things like that and beat a fine team like Saint Louis on the road.

Our penalties continually punished us and continually took away good play after good play that could have won the game. We're not good enough to do that. Some people might could. We might have done (so) in the past. We've got to eliminate the penalties.

Our penalty kill has done an exceptional job. All the guys involved, forwards included, are working together. To kill off as many penalties as we did against the hottest team in the league right now is a huge credit to how hard the guys are working.

Overall, there are still a number of things we can do better. We had problems with penalties in the first half, no question about that. We weren't as sharp as we need to be in execution or in terms of assignments.

I struggled right away shooting. I knew I just had to pick it up in every lap. My last lap, I knew five penalties wasn't great shooting, but I knew I was going well and I had to put it all down. ... It wasn't a great shooting day, but I've got to be happy.

I think from a penalty standpoint, he had more penalties than he's ever had and that's something he wants to get right. I think there are some things he probably didn't do as well as he has in the past.

I think halfway through the first we played a lot better. Then we took some penalties in the second and you can't do that against these guys, obviously. Then in the third, I think down 4-0 going into the third it's just a matter of pride and playing hard. I think the guys responded really well but. ... too late.

It felt good to be back out there. It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams this year. I think that's what everybody's kind of talking about right now, the amount of penalties that were called. You know, basically, how are we going to adjust to it is really what it's going to come down to.

Just look at what they've done by calling penalties for obstruction and just allowing the freedom to be able to skate. Look at what the style of play in the AJHL is right now - it's night and day (from the NHL). It's frustrating for players and it's frustrating for coaches. It's a rodeo out there, getting to the net.

I think that's a great example -- and those players know it who were involved -- that to play a game for 60 minutes, you've got to be disciplined and you never want to have undisciplined, unprovoked penalties like that. My advice is act like you've been there.

I think that if the penalties were enhanced, certainly the general public would know the severity of not obeying the law.

I think the penalties were down and I think the tempo was much better, ... We went no huddle for the majority of the game and that provides tempo and rhythm for us. Once you start getting a few first downs, you are able to really get going.

It goes without saying that should Craig Gower find himself in this position again the penalties will increase.

I thought overall the execution was good on both sides of the football. I was looking for a few things. I was looking for an improvement on penalties over last week, which we did, and better alignment on assignment, which we did. We still need to take care of the ball better, but defensively we created some turnovers, which was plus for them.

I think we took a positive step tonight. We reduced the penalties and the turnovers and it looked like the defense was getting to the football.

I think we've learned about how we can win games here, and how we lose games. And going into the final eight games I think if we can control the turnovers and we can control penalties and always go out and play physical, we're going to be sitting pretty good at the end of the year.

I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.

I think you're going to see some pretty stiff penalties coming out of this, probably by Tuesday at the earliest.

I thought we did a nice job on the penalty kill tonight. We got a lot of different people in. We had a few penalties, but they were aggressive penalties ? hard-working penalties.

I think it's going to be very difficult for the judge to find penalties that could indeed be construed as forward-looking.

I thought we were more disciplined than that, ... We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties and Steubenville did a nice job of capitalizing on them.

I thought we were more disciplined than that. We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties and Steubenville did a nice job of capitalizing on them.

I thought when we played when we could, we played a real smart game. We've got some guys who were a little bit behind and drew hooking penalties and I don't think the way the game was called helped us.

I think we gave them more yards on penalties than they had in the first half. Our defense flies around and makes some plays, and we just need to keep that up.

I thought that kind of just took the wind right out of their sails. All the sudden, they got momentum, they're going pretty well, and now, bang, we get a power play goal against a team that's been killing penalties great all year.

We came out pretty strong and the game was pretty even for the first period. Then we went and took a bunch of penalties and it killed us, ... We can't be giving teams that many opportunities on the power play and expect to be successful. It's something we'll need to work if we want to get better.

We were having a difficult time a lot of the time with the penalties ... I thought we could get the two points. And I'd do it again.

Turnovers and penalties are some of the things we have to cut back on. There's no question about that. But the right attitude is there and we're making progress.

You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.

Unfortunately they had a lot of penalties and you give us that many opportunities we can put a game away.

Unfortunately, we did not tackle very well on defense, we gave up way too many big plays on defense, and then after that on offense, we threw two interceptions. The fumble on first down really hurt us, and then we just had too many penalties in crucial situations. ... Against a good team, you can't put yourself in first-and-long, second-and-long situations.

The amount of penalties has been a problem. It is a recurring theme and it doesn't help the cause.

We're taking too many penalties and they're penalties we deserved. We have to learn what we can and can't do.

We have to keep getting after it. That's all you can do. Keep coming back every week and trying to get a win. We haven't had an easy game yet, we have made it tough for teams to beat us, but turnovers and penalties always tend to kill you.

We have to make sure we come out with a little more fire in the first period and take the play to them because when you don't, you're playing from behind all night, ... That's when you get penalties and when you get put away. And that's what happened.

We just didn't come ready to play. We hurt ourselves with penalties and were never able to get going offensively. ... It came down to not being able to execute. They made plays and we didn't.

I was really pleased with the fight in these guys. We created some turnovers. We had some penalties that hurt us. We need to show more discipline.

That was a long 37 seconds. I'm on cloud nine. We put everything together and really concentrated on not taking bad penalties and staying out of the box.

That we can agree on the penalties is very important, ... It's good news for trying to pass a steroid bill.

We got the upper hand quick, they did a lot of complaining and the next thing you know, we have five penalties in a row against us and it threw us off our rhythm. From that point on, you never knew what was going to be a penalty.

We never got down. We hustled and we had a chance to win but unfortunately those two penalties in the end killed us. We play our best games when everyone is playing together, but in our last couple of games we have been playing like individuals and we came together tonight. Everybody skated well. We are starting to win a little more. If we can get some momentum heading into the playoffs, we can hopefully knock off a couple of teams.

We never got in a rhythm, and that's what we are trying to eliminate, ... We are trying to start faster and get in a rhythm. We took too many pre-snap penalties early, and it put us in a situation where we were always punting. Hopefully what we are doing on the offensive side of the ball will clean that up.

We forced them into taking some penalties and took them out of the game by distracting them.

We had too many penalties in the first, and they were able to score two power-play goals. We battled back and played much better after the first 12 minutes. Generally our play got better as the game went on. It was a matter of not capitalizing enough.

We aren't getting penalties for whatever reason. I thought it was a penalty myself.

We gave up just too many penalties and that was the difference.

We gave up some bad penalties and the Blues capitalized on all of their chances, and that's what hockey is all about.

We gave up three power-play goals, you can't have that many penalties against a team with such a good power play.

We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.

We need to be able to put a team away. We weren't able to do that, but we were able to get a late goal. Two breakdowns and a couple of penalties in the first, other than that, we played pretty well.

We have a lot of great kids that come skate at the park. I know safety won't be a problem, but just in case I am wrong. We do have penalties to insure that safety.