“A lot of teams in junior hockey go on a three-year cycle. We wanted to put together a competitive team every year.”
Stan Butler
“We had six juniors last year on the team, and now we have three seniors.”
Gary Trittipoe
“When Keith was getting recruited in the spring of his junior year, teams like Michigan State, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia Tech were stopping by, and one of the recruiters said, 'Palisades? I've driven this 611 route at least 100 times in 20 years between Easton and CB West and I never even knew there was a school here,' ... Now that Keith brought that attention, some other kids have gotten letters (from colleges). It's opened avenues for some of the other guys.”
Brian Gilbert
“I started a freshman, three sophomore and a junior and we just took the second-place team close to the wire. Everyone contributed off the bench and this was a giant step for our program. We are 1-16 but we are improving and we played with these guys that are 9-3 in the league. We pretty much took their crowd out of the game.”
Lance Baylis
“There are undefeated freshman and junior-varsity teams and a once-beaten varsity team, and the staff is in place except for John. The nucleus is there. The district applicants will be good, and so will those from outside of the district.”
John Carlson
“It's extremely disappointing for Michael and for the team. He's basically missing the entire conference season of his junior year. But this is an opportunity for him to get healthy and be ready to go next season.”
Lon Kruger
“It works. Playing together works. As juniors we didn't get there (Final Four). This was our senior year and we did not want to let the chance slip away. We wanted to grab it. It was the last shot I had so we did it.”
Matt King
