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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The style he plays with was the prominent style in this game. We needed to go into the difficult areas to get the puck and send it toward the net.
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The swelling has to diminish before the physicians can do all the necessary tests.
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Right now, we're in a playoff position and if we get some points in our final game, we're going to the playoffs. The other teams can't say that.
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Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.
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The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.
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There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly.
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You see the scores while checking the penalties, but you hope the other teams are looking at your score.
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Something that we've seen in Cristobal in his normal character is that he isn't nervous or suffer from anxiety.
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One-goal games are easy to hide behind. One-goal games are two goals away from winning, and that's a lot in the NHL.
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Once we got down a couple of goals I think we went into shock and at that point, really the game tonight was over. Our team stumbled hard early in the game, and really by the 5-minute mark of the first period the outcome of the game was established.
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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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They had a power play five or six minutes in that really disrupted what we were trying to accomplish in the first period. In the second period, we were in the box five times I think for anything from clipping toe nails to anything else they were calling.
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We're happy to be playing and we skated right down to the wire to get into the playoffs.
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We'd seen a different team during the season. But they captured their level of play again (once) they got a goalie in there that gave them the saves they needed. They made it a lot more difficult for us to get scoring chances.