Hakstol's pre-game comments:
You know, you play 28 games total and we have 26 in the books and not much decided, and maybe that's how it's suppose to be. It's been so tight. You look at the national polls, and if it were to end today, there would be 8 WCHA teams in the national tournament. That tells you how good our league is.
We just have to go do our job. We'll wake up tomorrow and check out other things. All we can do is control our own destiny. The guys show up and work all the way through the 2nd half. We just need to continue to do that. It doesn't matter what you're playing for, it may be only pride, but you should show up and play hard for that.
You never know what you'll get. There's a good amount of goal scoring on both sides here, but both teams have played well defensively, and that's something we need to continue to do, especially against this team. They can get up and move.
It's a great opportunity for some guys to step in. Miller has wanted a chance to step in, so this is his opportunity. Marto gets an opportunity too. We lose a lot of jump without Genoway, and we don't want Marto to try to do too much, just play his game.
This is a team that will get it's opportunities, and as a penalty kill unit, we need to limit those opportunities. We need to stay out of the box as much as possible too.
We need to play hard for our seniors this weekend.