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 hadn't been close to the ice for a game in quite a while. It was a fun game to be a part of.
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I'm the one who's responsible and this gives time for Guy to get comfortable with the team and the players. It's more fair for myself to step in and take responsibility until the end of the season.
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I haven't really thought about it at this moment. We'll make a decision on our lineup and we'll let you know.
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If you want to build a scenario, I think it's a pretty good one.
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I didn't see anyone looking and wondering if someone was going to show up out of the blue. It's part of their lives. Players are in and players are out all through the season. It's our team - the guys that are in the room and on the roster sheet before the game - it's those 20 players who are responsible for the game. It's not the guys who aren't there.
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The best person to protect anyone is himself. That's the message he sent - don't mess with me because I'll protect myself.
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It's important for the confidence of this team to know what we can go 20, 40, 50 minutes without giving up a goal. We went through a stretch where we had trouble putting consecutive periods together.
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They kept us off balance through most of the game, through three or four power plays. We're certainly not tight in our team play.
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It seems taking a lead is an important part of a recipe that works most often. Early in the series will be a place either team will be looking for an advantage. It's about getting into that rhythm where all cylinders are firing.
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It's a small piece of the bigger production, and one game is not an indicator.
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It's less about specific things with him as it is us trying to create more opportunities. To whatever degree we've tested him, we haven't tested him enough.
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The intensity in those Toronto games was very high and it took a lot out of us.
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The Flyers have a lot of injuries right now, that's for sure. But our team, if we move the puck well, can play with a lot of speed, whereas their team is big, but they're slower than us. So it's like we have opposite teams, but it makes for good games.
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The information is that he was improving, that his vision was clearing up. Blood was dispersing, but there were still parts inside his eye that the doctors could not see and that still needed time.