With statements like this why should the rest of the Henderson team show up Friday night, when you have 2 players think they can carry the entire team. Wow what about Mattern I guess he does not keep the team in the games. And what about the rest of the players they don't count you win as a team and loose as a team. As it was posted before Henderson players need to stay out of the paper.

“Bill and I talked about it before the game,” said Cottle, who finished with a hat trick. “We knew we were going to have to carry the team to go deep in the playoffs, so we decided to come out on fire and we had a lot of success.”

He is talking about a player on his line on he got together with to talk strategy before the game.

I guessing you have never been intervied by a paper but they ask the questions and use your quotes however they want. The paper guy asked Cottle something along the lines of, "so you and Billy had a great game, did you guys discuss anything before it?"

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Don't read to much into that. Reporters ask tons of question and then get to pick and chose your words later. I'm sure he talked plenty about his team mates during the interview and I'm sure the questions asked were probably geared to get that kind of response. Plus after finishing a game and then having a reporter in your face sometimes you just babble cause your tired and just want to get out of there.

After the second Haverford High game, I accidentally told Chuck Smith "Haeberle asked me for a sympathy goal before the game." Obviously TJ was just joking when he told me, and I took it/relayed it with a laugh, but in the paper the next morning, I thought it came off a little cocky.

It wasn't Chuck's fault at all, he just wrote what I said completely in context. I just didn't think about what I was saying, haha.

that is why you get coaches and players say the
same inane things over and over. "we gave a 110%",
"their goalie really kept them in the game" etc.
if you don't really say anything its harder to get
misquoted or have something you did say taken out of context. the other thing is the paper has so much space so they rarely put in the complete thought and it seems like you said something totally different then what you meant.

That's one reason that I rarely do interviews.

I'm with Pond and Snipe on this one. The kid's not the Ambassador to the UN...he's a kid who plays hockey. I wouldn't expect him to be savvy in dealing with the press, which highlights something I think we all need to bear in mind more than we do. The players we talk about every day here are kids. They're hockey players, so as a rule they're good kids...but they are still kids. They make mistakes, they say dumb things, they miss the shot, they miss the check, they miss the save. Listen to the 3 nit-wits who think they should be our next President! One or another of them gets into a gaffe with the press each day and they're supposed to be professionals at it.