Postgame Quotes: Nebraska-Omaha 4, Michigan 1
2/14/2010 12:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
Feb. 14, 2010
Michigan Head Coach Red Berenson
On tonight's game ... "I liked our game better tonight than I did last night. I thought our team competed better. We worked harder. We needed the first goal. Obviously, we did not get it. Our power play didn't get to play much. I don't know where the penalties came from. We took six penalties in the first two periods and obviously that was not in the game plan. I don't know if they were good calls or not but that seems to be what we're running into. You can't kill six penalties in a row and then expect your team is going to come out on top. I liked our team effort. The third period, we just couldn't get the goal back. Did we have good chances, absolutely. It was a close game. It wasn't a 4-0 game. It probably should have been a 2-1 game and we couldn't score the one goal we needed early enough. That's the way the game was. You have to put your chances in on the road and you have to stay out of the penalty box."
On giving up odd-man rushes ... "We're trying to get back in the game. Our [defensemen] are trying to jump up. We had odd-man rushes too and we didn't score on them. It's a bit of a trade off. We have to put our chances in too when we get those. Carl [Hagelin] and [Matt] Rust had an odd-man rush the second shift of the game. The first shift of the game [David] Wohlberg walked right in. We have to score on those. It should be 2-0 in the first two minutes and it's not. That's the way the weekend went."
On playing without captain Chris Summers ... "I thought our defense played hard. You're going to miss your best defenseman, obviously. That's not an excuse. Our defense played well. I thought we did a lot of good things back there. It wasn't because Chris Summers wasn't there."
U-M Senior Defenseman Steve Kampfer
On the play of goalie Bryan Hogan ... "I thought [Bryan Hogan] played really well. Obviously, we left him out to dry on a couple goals. That's unfortunate. That's just lapses on defense and guys coming back. Other than that I thought Hogan battled hard and gave us a chance. We just didn't give him the support we needed."
On what led to Nebraska-Omaha's goals ... "I think it was us making mistakes. We made too many mistakes and they capitalized on them. That's what killed us this weekend."
U-M Junior Left Wing Carl Hagelin
On the positives and negatives tonight ... "I think we worked harder today than we did yesterday. A lot of guys came out hitting on the first shifts. Then they got kind of lucky and got that first goal. What worked well is that we got some good cycles going and enough opportunities to score more than one goal. But we gave them too many chances again. In the third period, we gave up those two goals and you can't do that against a team like Nebraska-Omaha."
