“We dealt with some adversity at the start of the game,” UNO
Maverick forward Josh Archibald said. “With (Dean) Blais getting kicked out of
the game, our team battled back and good things happen when you battle back. We’re
lucky to come out on top tonight.”
“I don’t really know how we got the two-minute unsportsmanlike
penalty for the bench minor to start things off. I just don’t think that coach
agreed with it and a lot of the guys on the bench didn’t agree with it. He just
kept saying no to the ref and I guess he got thrown for that.”
It appears that coach Blais being tossed from the game,
actually fired up his hockey team. Archibald would go on to score a natural hat
trick and add an assist for a four-point night.
Archibald was asked if his coach getting tossed from the
game fired up the Mavericks.
“If he (coach Blais) is going to do stuff for like that
for us, we’re going to battle for him any day.”
