Chris Chelios
Chris Chelios
Christos Kostas Chelios, better known as Chris Chelios, is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently the Executive Advisor to Ken Holland, the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, a role that Steve Yzerman held before leaving to become general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is one of the longest tenured players in the National Hockey League...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth25 January 1962
CityEvergreen Park, IL
goal huge pulled shaking tries watch
You watch him and he tries these things and sometimes you're shaking your head, but he pulled that off, and that was a huge goal for us.
career few great hockey
It's one of the few things I haven't accomplished. A great way to end my career with the U.S. hockey team.
great looks needed
He looks big in there and made some great saves. When he needed to make the big saves, he did.
great humble leadership learning respect teaching
They were teaching you how to act, how to respect other players, just so you get a humble attitude. The leadership I had back then was a great learning experience.
concern knew nobody
The big concern was that nobody knew what was going on.
playing watched
You watched the game. It was undisciplined. It was uncharacteristic of how we have been playing and of what we wanted to do. It was very unacceptable. We had our chances.
capitalize cost forced obviously
You want to come out of that with something and we didn't. We forced them to take some penalties, it's right what you want to do, but we just didn't capitalize and it obviously cost us the game.
leadership
His leadership in the room, obviously, has been so important,
happen seriously took
I don't think we took it as seriously from the beginning. That won't happen again.
good saved year
I wanted it to be like 40-below, wind, storm. That's the only thing that would have saved the Bears. That's what killed them was those passes. Too bad. It was a good year for them.
doubt great hard shape
He's in great shape and he's a hard worker. I have no doubt he can come back and be the same player.
doubt great hard heal player strong
The only thing I can say is, I've been through the same thing, and you do come back strong and you can heal strong and come back the same player 100%. He's in great shape, and he's a hard worker, so I have no doubt he can come back and be the same player.
heal
The only thing I can say is, I've been through the same thing and you do come back strong, you can heal strong, and come back the same player,
convert ice middle puck
We just can't convert our chances. We had the puck up the middle of the ice a lot, and didn't get anything to show for it.