Mike Butters Quotations

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

If we hadn't lost Danny we might be in a different place right now. He's a great goalie.

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

He's had a good playoff series. We're looking for him to continue that. He keeps the team fired up.

We just have to find the net. We didn't do that tonight and Eugene skated very well.

Three of those eight games are against Billings. We basically have to win those three and hope Billings doesn't win anymore. We're also only a few back on Wasilla too, so we're in control of our own destiny.

We've got that one last game. It's fan appreciation night. We're just going to come out and have fun. We have our awards banquet the next night and then we'll start getting ready for next year.

We ran into some problems last Saturday. But, I think we'll rebound. We've got a strong team.

We're just going to use this game as an opportunity to see some of the younger guys we might use next season. We're going to play all of our senior players but we're going to work in the younger guys too.

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

We're going to have to protect our zone. Shots on goal will be very important in this game.

We spent some time in the box early on. We didn't have a good first period, but we made up for it in the second and third.

We've also seen some solid goal tending all season from Josh Ex. If he plays well we have a very good chance.

It was tough. That eliminates us from the playoffs so it's a hard way to end an overtime game.

The guys did a great job. We started off a little slow but the guys responded well and played some good hockey.

Its always hard to repeat. But I think we have the group of guys to do it. We wanted to get out of Eugene with a split and we did. Now we get to come home and play on our ice.

There were some bad calls late in the game, and then we came up short in overtime.

We had to go with a replacement goalie again tonight. Dan Vasquez is still hurt but Potter did a great job for us.

Those three guys shined especially in the later stages of the season. They're the kind of guys who are really looking to continue in their hockey career.

We just need to find the net better in game four. If we can do that I think we'll be okay.

They're a very physical team. They body very well and they like to finish their hits hard. When they do that they're a very effective team.

He came up big for them. He was made a lot of tough saves.