THE REACTION

Media scrum with coach Chad Mercier after the game.

CITL: What did you think of your team’s performance tonight?

CM: I thought it was a fairly even matched came despite the fact the score was 7-1 but I thought it was exactly what you were looking for in your first exhibition game. We got a chance to see a lot of things from our side. You hate to lose but we got to see a lot of what we want to see when it comes to evaluating things.

CITL: Were there any players who stood out for you?

CM: Well I think we had some guys that showed some real creative offensive opportunities. You know I liked what I seen in that side in it and you know when it’s exhibition or if it’s regular season when you get down you have to continue to create offence and continue to put out the effort unfortunately we ended up on the losing end of it.

RH: What kind of changes do you make heading into St. Albert on Thursday?

CM: Quite a bit. We are going to now sit down a look. The problem we have now is that we are dealing with some injuries and not knowing exactly when those injuries are going to be coming back so it’s a bit of a juggling act but I think today showed us a lot and there are some positives we’ve seen out there too. We know we are a young team and we have lots of work ahead of us in this short period of time to get ready for the start of the league.

RH: Any word on Rylan Medouche?

CM: We’ll find out, it sounds like a high ankle sprain which isn’t good news because those are usually tough to come back from but we’ll wait for him to get evaluated on Wednesday and go from there.