Dave Hakstol
Dave Hakstol
Dave Hakstolis the head coach for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. A native of Warburg, Alberta, Canada, Hakstol was head coach of the University of North Dakota men's ice hockey team for 11 seasons. Hakstol played for the Fighting Sioux from 1989 to 1992 and in the International Hockey League for five years before becoming a coach...
awful hockey ice remain
Erik is an awful important part to our hockey team. He's going to remain an important part. He just won't be on the ice with us.
attribute best maybe
I've always said about Jordan, maybe his best attribute is his competitiveness.
chalk positive sharper step tonight took weekend
I chalk that up to nothing more than coincidence. Tonight we were just sharper offensively than we were on Friday. We didn't get a lot of chances, but the ones we had, we made count. We wanted to take one step this weekend and we took one positive step.
battle final forward hockey proud step took
It was a battle out there, right down to the final buzzer. I'm very, very proud of our hockey team. We took another step forward tonight.
chip early five four home lost playing row slowly
Early in the year, we lost four or five in a row at home, and you don't get all those back at once. You just have to slowly chip away, and we feel like we're playing pretty well at home right now.
awful change expected friday morning sunday work
Things change an awful lot. From Friday morning to Sunday morning, those standings can take on a whole different look. There's nothing expected or guaranteed. You have to go out and work for what you get.
ability afraid experience guys half learning mental next
One thing I really like about these guys is that they're not afraid to play. If they make a mistake, they're not afraid to go out there the next shift. The first half (of the season) as a freshman, there is a pretty big learning curve. The only way to go through it is to experience it, if you have the mental ability and toughness.
ability adding bring forcing good grow guys joining jumping offense offensive plays rush time
We've got some guys back there who can bring some offensive ability and make some offensive plays. That's part of being a good offensive team. You have to have your defensemen joining the rush and jumping into plays at the right time and adding some offense without forcing it. That's something young guys grow into.
adjust behind guy hitting lose midway situations
We've had a lot of situations where you lose a guy to a hitting from behind midway through games. You just adjust to that.
battles game hockey played tight time virtually
We've had tight battles with virtually every time we've played them. It was a playoff-type hockey game tonight.
advance expected frozen maybe others period says teams won
You can look back over a long period of time. Some of the teams that won it at UND were expected to and others maybe not so much. It says a lot about how important it is to have the right to advance to the Frozen Four.
certainly fought happy hard opportunity
We fought real hard to get this opportunity, but we're certainly not happy just getting there.
game played start
We got off to the start we wanted. We established our game and played physically.
ability awful character locker mind next room sticks turn unfinished
Those are things we'll turn to next week. We've got an awful lot of ability, an awful lot of character in our locker room that will be returning. And the one thing that sticks out in my mind is we have some unfinished business.