Head Coach Jim Culhane:
On Riley Gill's performance:
"I think the game can be summarized by the outstanding
goaltending of Riley Gill. I think he has been tremendous throughout his senior
year and I think the goaltending tonight is some of the best in my memory I've
ever seen at Lawson Ice Arena. Riley was fantastic. I'm happy for the guys to
get the sweep. The penalty-kill was fantastic and our best penalty-killer was
Riley."
On the penalties in the third period:
"As I said to the team, the way we got the win in the third
period, I'm not happy with that. But, at the end of the day, we won
back-to-back games against an outstanding program. Jeff Jackson's teams are
always well prepared. They gave us a real good effort tonight. They lost last
night 7-2 and I thought we matched the intensity, we matched their
competitiveness. Again, I think Riley was just outstanding."
On the special teams:
"We were able to execute on our special teams. We scored
some power-play goals here, a couple tonight, a couple last night. We did a
great job killing penalties. Hard fought all weekend long, and that's great to
see the guys score, as we've talked about, our challenges this year scoring
goals. Seven last night, four tonight, is real positive for our team and
sweeping an opponent is something we can be pleased with."
On the play of Derek Roehl the last two nights:
"I thought the way Derek saw the puck was exceptional. A
couple goals here tonight, I think he had an assist and did a lot of good
things in the offensive zone. We looked to Derek to contribute offensively for
us. Good weekend on the offensive side of the puck."
Forward Derek Roehl:
On predicting his hat-trick:
"We were talking
about it before today's game and yesterday's game and I was like yeah, I'm
gonna get a hat trick tonight. There's no excuses. It's funny how it works out.
It felt good."
"It was a great feeling, you know, it was the first one of
my career. It wasn't the prettiest one, but we'll take it."
On Notre Dame's effort:
"They came out harder tonight. They adjusted to our breakout
and that eliminated our odd-man rushes, which was a big part of our game last
night. We just needed to adjust to that a little tonight."
On scoring 11 goals over the weekend:
"We definitely needed that. We haven't really gotten a lot
of bounces, this weekend we did, it felt good and it was a lot of fun."
"We're just going to come back Monday, take tomorrow off to
rest up with the guys that are hurt and banged up and Monday we'll start
gearing up for Northern Michigan."
Goaltender Riley Gill:
On facing 55 shots:
"They were coming at us pretty good, with a lot of the
penalties we had. We kept them out. It's nice to get a sweep, it's the first in
awhile in CCHA play. It's a good confidence builder going into the rest of the
season here."
"I think those are two of the extremes, but somewhere in the
middle is ideal. Some nights you get 16 shots, other nights you get 96 attempts
and you gotta face one shot at a time and hope it just works out for the best."
On the penalty-kill:
"It was really good tonight, blocking shots and clearing
rebounds. Getting some clears were huge. I think a problem for us in the past
has not been getting clears, so I think we did a good job of that tonight. They
didn't score a power-play goal, so a pretty good percentage for us."
On scoring first:
"It's been big for us. It's something to build on. It seems
like it takes awhile for us to get going, but once we get that first goal we
start motoring around. This weekend we got that first goal and never looked
back."