Pat McDonald Quotations

It is a viable program because it opens up the doors of opportunities for emerging businesses. The issue is, simply without a program like this they won't look at those emerging businesses; they would have no reason to.

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

We want some good showers to come through without a lot of lightning, but we just don't see that happening.

I've never been part of such a thing. It's an unbelievable experience to go through six overtimes. Our guys were exhausted and sucked it up enough to get the win.

I'm getting really tired of that. This one is tough to swallow. We were so close, but I guess it's not meant to be.

Everybody is happy that it rained, but we're definitely nowhere near out of the drought.

Once they got the lead they were able to clamp down on us.

It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.

By the third overtime, there's only so much coaching you can do. I just told them to play hard. The kids know what to do. They were having fun with it, they were smiling, they knew they were part of history.

He's our leader out there. We do depend on him to make a big save. He's pretty sound position-wise and he sees the puck and sees the game and anticipates well.

It's great. There's a few things we are going to have to do for Walter.

We changed things up a bit and had three forwards playing down low. It wasn't drawn up that way, but it worked.

It's going to be a game of opportunities and taking advantage of those opportunities. Both teams are very similar in what they do, playing good team defense.

(There's) a lot of pride in what youth hockey does; it makes our job that much easier at the high school level.