Head Coach Andy Murray

(opening statement)

I mean, it was exciting for me the first game at home here to see the enthusiasm of the student section. I thought our team worked extremely hard, we got pucks to the net. I liked also the fact that in the third period we didn't allow a shot. You know, this is a hard working team from Alabama-Huntsville, we've got a great deal of respect for them. That's why we worked as hard as we did. We saw them play on tape, two games last weekend, two one-goal games against Lake Superior State and we knew that we'd have to be at our best to beat them. So we'll enjoy the win here tonight, we'll figure out some things that we could do better, regroup tomorrow morning, and go back at 'em tomorrow night.

(On first regular season win)

You know, the interesting thing that I found about college is that every game is a back-to-back so you don't have much time to enjoy it. So I've kind of parked this one already, and I'm looking forward to the game tomorrow night, how we can be better. We know that Alabama-Huntsville is a hardworking team. Again, they battled Lake Superior last weekend, so we know that they're not going to be happy with the game tonight, and they're play really hard. I really respect how their team works and that's why we're trying to work as hard as we can.

(Scrappy team like that, how pleased were you to see your guys come out in the third after taking it off the gas a little in the second, how happy were you about the third?)

Those games are difficult to play. You've got an opponent that plays extremely hard. I thought our team in the third period was really solid through the neutral zone, tried to eliminate scoring chances for them, so we were solid defensively.

(Face offs, you told me that's a big part of what you like to see, you won 38 out of 63 tonight, what are your thoughts there?)

I'd like to win 48 of 63. I think we can be even better on our face offs. They've got a few good face off players on their team and we have to find a way to beat them. But if you don't win your face offs, you don't start with the puck, you're playing defense right away - so we'd like to have the puck.

(Overall thoughts heading into tomorrow, anything that sticks out that you want to see better tomorrow?)

Yeah, I mean, I thought we turned the puck over at the blue line a few times, and I think we have certain individual players that need to raise the level of their game to what we want. I'm looking forward to see if they're capable of doing that.

Matt Tennyson

(On two goals he scored.)

First one, I just kind of walked around, down low and forward, walked around the net and no one was on me, so I just threw it at the net and got a good bounce on that one, on the first one. Second one, Bersch hit me with a pass.

(Little bit of distance on that one, too. Was that a little bit of a surprise that it found its way through?)

No, I think we worked on that, you know, jumped up in the play. Not really a surprise, just more execution.

(On aggressive start)

Oh, it's huge. Especially the first game of the year. Everybody was going, everybody was excited to play in front of the fans, especially with the year we had last year. It was a good start, and I think it really helped us for the rest of the game.

Shane Berschbach

(On fast start.)

There are two minutes that coaches look at for important minutes of hockey, and that's the first minute of the period, and the last minute of the period. Unfortunately we gave one up in the last minute, there, but we got two in the first minute of each period in the first and third, so it was a good start.

(Is that your quickest goal ever for you, into a period?)

Yeah, I think that might be my record right there, for sure.

(On keeping Huntsville from getting any momentum.)

Yeah, they're a good team, they work hard, they come at you every shift, so you can't take 'em lightly, just take their maybe over-aggressiveness and just make good plays around them. We're going to be ready for them tomorrow.

(On holding Alabama to zero shots in the third period)

Our coach talks to us about respecting the other team and he thinks we don't respect them if we don't play them the full 60 minutes. He gave us a challenge there, at the end, to keep our shots at 12 the whole time, so we didn't give 'em a shot there in the third.

(Did Coach Murray crack a smile at all? I haven't seen one yet.)

He's a serious guy on the bench, but yeah, he definitely had a smile on after the big win. It was his first real collegiate win and so it was a good night for us all.