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Sweatt played well against us last year too, as well as at the World Juniors. He's a top player, that's for sure, and I think you're right with the NHL not being far away for him.

We have been consistent at home. This was our first loss at home this year (2007). However, I agree, have to sweep at home.

Chorney comments: I don't think our effort was horrible, but it definitely wasn't our best effort. Last weekend, we played hard against Tech, and it could have went either way. Tonight was different. They came out with more jump with us tonight. Our guys weren't getting to the front of the net. Most goalies in the league will make that first save. We just need to be grittier in front of the net and get some garbage goal. We'll get another shot at them this year. Next week, will be a totally different style of game. We'll have to grind it out, and hopefully, things will go our way.

Watkins comments: Too bad we didn't come out with a better effort tonight. Especially with an older club, we can't allow that to happen. CC did a good job and they deserve to be congratulated. We had some good chances, last night those would have went in, while tonight, they didn't. First time we ever faced Bachman. He was solid. We didn't get enough 2nd chances. Kind of shows the effort we had tonight and we didn't do good enough as a team. Nice feed from Joe on the goal. Got it to go.

Hak's post-game comments: Delayed due to locker room talk. Can't be happy with this performance. We didn't get any rebounds in the first. We didn't penetrate. We didn't have a lot of jump. I saw that right away. CC played better, they executed, we knew they would, and we didn't get the job done. We had some opportunities after Watkins goal, but not enough. Got some life, but ended up giving up a PP goal. The 3rd goal was a killer. It was a bad goal to give up. From there, we threatened to get back in it at times, but couldn't get anything going. We just quite simply, weren't as sharp as last night. It's a hard lesson to learn, when you have to do it through a loss, for a veteran team. Need to take note, and make sure it doesn't happen again. I don't think we were sharp moving the puck, or getting the puck through and that's the bottom line. The shooting lane doesn't stay there for very long, and we weren't getting the shot off. Had great opportunities, and we would fan on a shot in front of the net. Just wasn't crisp. Finley pass to Watkins was nice. We needed that to get us going. Unfortunately, we couldn't keep that going, and snowball it into something going. We've played two good teams in the WCHA. Tech was good and CC is good. Have to be ready to go each night, and tonight we didn't have it.

We didn't suck in the first period, we just stank up the Ralph the last two!

Yeah, I was thinking earlier, they don't recover after losing to New Hampshire, but decide to regroup after getting beat by us last night? It all comes down to having the lead. A team has more energy when they have a lead, and that showed tonight. Be interesting to see what Hak has to say.

Sweatt buries it to make it 4-1.

Needed to be passing the puck quicker and shooting more on the PP. 24 seconds left.

Trupp gets leveled, and we don't come out ahead?

PP is on, Phil's out, and my feed is frozen!!!

I still get that feeling when he gets the puck in his "office."

Sioux PP. Need one now.

Goodness, we just don't look good tonight. Guys sliding into one another, etc.

Billy Sweatt can move!

That happened a lot last year too when we played teams who actually focused on him. The kid's 5'6", so you can blame him for getting buried. He's a workhorse though.

Now they'll probably give JPL a penalty for hitting that guy.

That's a GOOD omen!!!!

Finley on a 3 on 2, and gets knocked over???

I think CC should put in O'Connell to see if he can regain some confidence after last night's loss.

Hak must be listening to me. Trupp's out there with Kozek now!

I wouldn't mind seeing Trupp on Zajac and Kozek's line. I think sitting on that 4th line is limiting his chances.

CC's clogging all the lanes very well.

Don't need anymore penalties.

Time to show some toughness boys. Let's get one!