Hakstol's post-game comments:
**Hakstol's 100th career win tonight!!!**
I guess it's nice to get the 100th win, but personally, I like the 2 points better.
The neutral zone is so tight. You take 2 strides and you're through it. I thought it took us a little bit to adjust to that. It changes the game a little bit.
The goal at the end of the 1st was a big goal. We did a lot of good things on the PP. We weren't real good on our side of the red line. Quite frankly, they had a little more intensity than we did. That goal at the end of the 1st was a huge goal, after we didn't get anything on our PP's. Sandy was complaining about a pick, but their guy didn't come out to challenge. Kozek to his ice, and that opened up the shooting lane for Chay. I think Oshie got a piece of it, but it will remain Chay's goal.
Vande's scored a couple of those kinds of goals this year. Stalock made some great saves in the 2nd period and Vande had the poise and patience to wait and put it through him. Oshie's line had 3 or 4 great opportunities to score, and it was great work 5 on 5, that caused that PP.
Phil was positionally very good. I thought in the 3rd period, he had 2 or 3 tough saves. He shut the door and kept the goose egg up on the board for them.
I think we have been very solid defensively. The 3rd period, though there was never any panic, we spent too much time in our end. You give up one and you never know. We didn't spend enough time cycling down low and getting pucks to the net. Watkins had a great game. The icing at the end wasn't his best play of the night, but we'll let it go.
Trupp's injury will be more than a couple of days. It looks like he has a break in one of the bones of his lower leg. We'll have to take x-rays. I couldn't be more proud of him for getting up and dragging himself off the ice. That's Sioux hockey. The guys were talking about it after it happened. Martens came in and played well where we needed him to play. Unfortunately, you don't replace Trupp with as well as he's playing, but we'll put someone else in there, and they have the opportunity to play.
All we can do is play our games. You can watch the games going on elsewhere, but at the end of the night, we have to make good of what we're doing. Whatever else happens, happens.
