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
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.
hard maybe players sorry team
I feel sorry for those guys. They've got a lot going on, a lot of issues, maybe not with the players on the team but things in the organization that are hard to put aside.
ask consider feedback partners selling system team tremendous
What's been tremendous about the new system is the team really does consider us partners in this and they ask for our feedback on things, so that makes us feel more a part of selling the game.
advantage core definitely four good guys last played sitting teams three together
It's definitely an advantage. We've got guys that have played together the last three or four years. A lot of teams really juggled their rosters. The core of our team is back, most of the team is back. We're sitting good right now.
blocking determination front good hard job mind team three took work
It was the mind-set of the whole team to get to the front of the net. We hadn't done it much the first three games. They do a good job of blocking shots. It took hard work and determination from us.
definitely mentally pick slovakia team
We're definitely going to have to pick up our play. Slovakia is going to be a much different team than Kazakhstan. Mentally we have to know that and get out there and give a better effort.
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.
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.