Will Kitchen
Will Kitchen
healthy situation supportive
They've been really supportive of me. It's been a healthy situation for me.
bbc everybody forward games gets looking mentioned points school telling throughout wants
It gets mentioned all throughout the year. Everybody wants to know when those BBC games are. All day at school everybody's telling me, 'I want 30 points or 50 points.' Everybody is looking forward to it.
couple
There have been a couple times I thought I would give up.
armstrong cancelled chances coach college dead entire feeling iowa remember spent stupid terrible time weekend
I remember one time (Ozark assistant) coach (Kevin) Armstrong was going to take me to a tryout for a coach at a college in Iowa and I spent the entire weekend partying. I was just feeling dead and terrible and called him up and cancelled the trip. I just think back to how stupid I was to take away all of those chances I had.
pickup starts
If he starts making a couple, they all start going in. It's the same way when we play after-school pickup games. He's the sparkplug for us a lot of times.
festival fun says seemed
Everyone always says they need to have something to do in January. A film festival seemed like a fun thing.
In the short-term it's interesting. In the long-term, it's good. The more things we have going on, the better it is for the community.
Without the volunteers, we couldn't even think of having a season.
decisions fatigue plays poor shut starts understand
I think fatigue set in. You understand it when you're an athlete. Everything starts to shut down. You make poor decisions with the puck. We made plays out there that we haven't made in a long time. A lot of that is through fatigue.
coming decisions ice move players time
We couldn't give (Downey) the ice time that he thought he needed, so we had to make a move and take a look at some of these young players because we've got to make decisions on them coming up.
calm looks net past scoring tough
We had some scoring chances, but it's tough to get it past Luongo. He looks very calm in the net and you look at their coaches, they look very calm over there.
confidence dropped greedy lost net ok shoot
When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.
finesse guard nice player true
He's a finesse player who understands the game. He's not a true guard or a true post, but he's a nice combination of both.
deserves good gotten leader terrific tremendous worked year
He deserves everything he's gotten here. He's worked hard; he's been a good leader in the room; he's been a tremendous leader on the ice. He's been terrific for us all year long.