As usual, Ontario Reign Insider beat me to putting up most of the postgame quotes, but here are a couple exclusives, including the coach threatening to scratch a certain JFTC blogger:
Dowd on who stepped up in Mersch's absence:
Yeah, I thought Brodzy played really well. I thought Z played well in the 1st period, 2nd period he had a good goal. also thought Crescenzi played really well too. Other than that? I think a strong overall game. Newbury too. It's huge having him back. Takes a lot of faceoffs.