Bob Gainey
Bob Gainey
Robert Michael "Bob" "Le Capitaine" Gaineyis the former executive vice president and general manager of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He is currently a team consultant for the St. Louis Blues. He is also a former professional ice hockey player who played for the Canadiens from 1973 until 1989. After retiring from active play, he became a hockey coach and later an executive with the NHL Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars organization before returning to Montreal as general...
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I am the one with NHL head coaching experience and no one has followed this team as closely as I have since training camp. As of this point, I will take full responsibility as the head coach.
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A little bit. He was supposed to be our second goalie, but he continues to make it clear that he wants to be the number one.
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It gives him the sense that we want him here.
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The other night we had lots of great scoring chances and we didn't complete them, but tonight the scoring chances were minimized so we'll be looking for ways to penetrate the defenses of Carolina and to get some of our players participating and getting some results on the Carolina side of center ice.
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We're hot, and it's good that we are.
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We have a large group of players who are coming to an age of maturity.
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We've got seven games before the break and five of them are at home so we need to go home and make some hay.
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We only thought about the player and his talents and his ability to win a match,
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With the Expos no longer in existence and him needing a home, I think the Montreal Canadiens and Youppi! will fit nicely together.
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We'll have to look to our reserves for help.
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Well, I don't think looking solely at our four games with them is really a good indicator. We'll have to play like we've played in some of the stretches since the Olympic break. If we get that kind of play then we're going to be a good competitive team.
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We gave Jose a three-year contract last summer with the idea that he was going to remain with us. Since then, things changed.
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We have to be pleased with his play. He got bombarded and he stood in.
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We have to push back so that we're moving up the standings by putting points on the board, rather than the other direction.