I didn't want to put (Conner) back out there. I held him off until the last two minutes of the game. I needed him for face-off wins. He is a tremendous talent. It's tough for him to pull the reins back but he did it for us.

It's fun when you have this much talent to work with. It's odd in single-A hockey where you just don't have that depth, then you get on a bench with four lines of nothing but power players.

Scotty's a heck of a player. He works hard. He is the stereotypical Sewickley hockey player. He does what I ask. His legs never stop. He never takes a shift off. Every shift is going to be as hard as the last one. That's what I need from every one of these guys.