He conveyed that to (co-owner) Ken Wagner. Ken stopped in Vancouver and met with Shaun and his father on Sunday morning, hoping to convince him on the merits of being a Nanaimo Clipper.

I think it's the first and only time for me that we've been on a four games in four days trip. It's going to be a definite test for us. We'll take it one game at a time and see how we make out.

When you are competitive, you have a need to succeed. Success can be placing first or making the playoffs and if you don't make it, you feel like you let people down and you feel like a failure.

Coaching consumes you every day, 24 hours a day. And it doesn't just affect you but also your family, it can be very taxing.

He's opted not to continue his junior playing career and pursue his life after junior hockey sooner rather than later. It's a disappointment but fortunately the trade didn't involve us giving up a player from our active roster. It's not as though we had Macdonald and then lost a player in the process, or we had him and he left.

Well I expect we'll have more of interlocking or balanced schedule with all our (Coastal) opponents instead of the unbalanced schedule we've had in the past.

Blair is most deserving of this opportunity and his commitment to training and perseverance has been rewarded.

They all played well. It was really an offensive game. Probably 90 % of the game was offensive and they (Greening and Riley) were in the right place at the right time.

It was a wonderful event. Salmon Arm did a great job.