Jody and I told them that we thought they stepped it up and competed very hard. You know, we couldn't have asked for anything more out of those girls. It's hard when you don't have your top lineup out there, but we communicated well in doubles, and had a few girls step it up in singles.
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As coaches, you so badly want to be able to help your team, ... We used to put so much effort into our warmup drills. People used to tell us, 'guys, it doesn't matter how this team warms up. You've got the wrong Hull, (Jody instead of Brett) and the wrong Turgeon (Sylvain instead of Pierre).'
Jody didn't make our trainers aware of any issues in spring training, he performed as every player did, and he played well offensively. He also showed increased strength in testing we did to his knee. Our view is that he is a healthy player.
Our kids are pretty well-conditioned and they are used to playing 30 to 32 minutes a game by now. Jody, Emma and Ashley all play close to 32 minutes a game. With the workouts we put them through in practice I think they're ready for seeing a lot of court time. They go hard all the time.
I'm very pleased. We're very much looking forward to Jody being a member of the Pirates' organization in 2006 and beyond.
They had (Jody Holland) who scored four goals. The key was that we got ourselves in a hole. They scored the first three goals. We played good hockey, but we weren't able to find that equalizer. We had our chances. Our girls worked hard, but we couldn't overcome that big deficit.