Bill Guerin
Bill Guerin
William Robert Guerinis an American former professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Guerin played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, winning two Stanley Cup championships with the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins. Internationally, Guerin represented the United States in the Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006, and participated in two Ice Hockey World Championships. Guerin was the first player of Hispanic descent to play in the NHL...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth9 November 1970
clean discipline five issue last penalties
Penalties had been an issue and we were much better tonight. But our discipline in the last five minutes, we really have to clean that up.
definitely
We're definitely going to have to get better.
heads
You keep your heads up and you never know what will happen.
toward year
(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.
absolutely agree good guys talk together
There are absolutely guys who are going to want to get things off of their chest, and that's why we're doing this. We have more than 700 people, and we're not going to agree on everything, so it's good to get together and talk about everything that's happened.
gets gives score start system team
To score first is big. It gives your team confidence. Gets it out of the way. We can relax, get in your system and start to play.
couple lose paid plays price tonight tough
We hadn't paid the price for it yet. Tonight we did. A couple of tough plays and we lose the game.
bad game serious tapes tip
Tip just told us how serious this is. He told us there are some game tapes that you look at and think, 'Oh, it wasn't as bad as I thought.' Then he told us, this wasn't one of them.
came flat lucky misleading playing win
We didn't play well. We were lucky to win. We came out flat and made a lot of mistakes. This is a misleading win streak. We're not playing as well as we should.
believe choice clear focus gain hard positive stepping work
We didn't have much of a choice. We are not going to be in the clear for a while. Sometimes you just gain a lot by stepping back a little. We have to focus on the positive things. We all here believe in good, hard work ethic.
beaten ourselves ready run
We're going to run into that during the playoffs. We're going to be tired. We're going to be more beaten up than we are now, so we can't use that as an excuse. We have to get ourselves ready to go.
good might players premier smaller surprise
I don't think it's a surprise to anybody. They have some of the premier players in the league. They might be one of the smaller countries, but they're as good as anybody.
good hockey ourselves players time trust
We have to be better. We as players get the time out there, and we have to make it work. I think at times we just have to trust ourselves more and just make good hockey plays.
arenas enjoy everybody excited extremely great happy lucky people power ready upset
The people who are excited and ready to come back, we're extremely lucky to have them. The ones who are upset . . . you know what? We're going to do everything in our power to make them happy and to get them back in the arenas because hockey's a great game. You want everybody to come back and enjoy the sport.