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"The fans definitely bring a lot of energy that we aren't used to, so playing at the Saddledome in front of your university, makes it so much more meaningful. Our games against the University of Calgary are always so intense but the Saddledome game always seems a bit more important."

"We've had an amazing year so far and it's awesome to see all the boys hard work pay off."

"This year was our second-highest ever. The number of volunteers was incredible ... I sometimes had a hard time finding things for them to do just because we had so many of them and they were so eager to help which was awesome."

"I started this business (Trinity Taekwon-Do) in 2004 and he's my first, true, real black belt that I've produced. So it's a big milestone for him, myself and the entire club. It was special to do it together as well."

"We need every player to commit to our team goals. We are a very offensively talented team so I don't think we will need to worry about scoring because I believe that will come. But I think we will have to focus more defensively against teams that can score like Okotoks, Airdrie and Medicine Hat."

"It's pretty unreal," Matechuk said with a chuckle of disbelief. "Especially for it being three in a row, I never thought it would happen ... it hasn't really sunk in yet."

Laurie Smith is one of the many hockey heroes that makes the sport possible in Cochrane.

"The game is in honour of Owen and having Betty and Randy there is still key to sharing the message. As I said, they are important members of the Chaos family and it is great to have them at this game and at any of our games when they are able to attend."

"It was and still is an absolutely surreal feeling," Noble said when asked how it felt to score the game-winning goal. "I think it was obvious to everyone in that rink how overcome with emotion every single one of us was when the puck went in."

"The excitement level kind of revolves around the two-week forecast ... once the 14-day forecast came out and showed the temperature will be hovering around zero during the weekend of the tournament, it's kind of been all smiles from us."