A good power play is 25 percent. We're right on track. Our power play is sitting at 25 to 30 percent on the year.

That was big. Freshman Sean Little stepped up. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon tonight. We hadn't heard from him in a few games, he gets a few here and there, but I thought he really picked it up tonight.

Randy made a couple nice stops. They had a couple breakaways down the stretch that could have made it a 4-2, 4-3 game. He came up big when he had to. But the biggest difference was our puck control.

I was talking to them afterwards. It felt great to finish it off that way. As we were celebrating, I told them let's go out and let's go deeper. Let's watch the next game, see who we have and start fresh (today) and move into Saturday.

We've been working on cycling the puck. I try to tell them puck control and I think it's paying off. Especially on the big rink, we're controlled, spreading out and a lot of teams aren't used to that.

They are defending state champions right now. However, you look at it right now, they have the crown and it's for someone else to take. We can look at it that way and look at it as a goal ? it's for us to take.

We didn't totally fold it in ? I give them credit ? our guys battled. We were able to come back and make it 5-1. We had some fire and I thought maybe we'd be able to get a run going and chip away at it. It just never happened tonight.