“He can put the puck right where he wants it. He has an unbelievably hard slap shot. Glove side every time. He's really good up close doing wrist shots. High glove, high blocker.”
“He's not selfish with the puck at all. He likes to pass, he likes to get it in close. As you look at the stats other players have high scoring chances, but they don't have many assists and Derek does.”
“They didn't set the pipe as much as the first time we played them. It took us out of our game. We were still bunching. The lack of pipe setting, it opened the way for them to bang (spikes down) the line on us. We weren't able to get out there on the pin.”
