Claude Julien
Claude Julien
Claude Julienis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is the longest tenured head coach currently in the NHL. He has previously served as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens and the New Jersey Devils in the NHL, as well as in the American Hockey Leaguewith the Hamilton Bulldogs. In 2011 and 2013, he coached the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Finals, guiding the Boston...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 April 1960
CityBlind River, Canada
fortunate ice involved people players position rules top variety
We're fortunate to have players who can play a variety of roles. With the new rules and all the penalties, we have to be in a position where we can get as many people involved so that our top players aren't on the ice all the time.
consider couple happened hopefully lose past played position regroup situations tight walking wounded
You're disappointed when you lose 4-0, but if you consider the position we were in with our roster and all the situations that have happened in the past couple days, I thought we played a pretty tight game. We just have to regroup and hopefully get our walking wounded back.
centre guy injury move position run solid
What we like about Radek is that he can be a solid No. 3 centre for us and if we run into injury problems, then he is the kind of guy who can move up to the No. 1 or No. 2 position with no problem,
consider couple happened past played position situations tight
I think when you consider the position that we were in with our roster and all the situations that have happened in the past couple of days, I thought we played a pretty tight game.
barrel bottom needed short week win
We really scraped the bottom of the barrel with our short bench. We needed a win to make our week a little happier.
although average found good played players score winning
I thought he played an average game. But good players find a way to make a difference, and although he had an average game, he found a way to score the winning goal.
saves third
Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.
episode paid
That episode is over, he's paid his dues,
knowing page turned
That was uncharacteristic of him. For me, it's about him knowing we've turned the page on that and that we just want him to use his skills.
definitely early goal period quick second
We get an early goal and we think we're on the right track. Then we give up two quick ones. Our second period was definitely the period that killed us.
adjust bit chance discuss giving help hopefully maybe mean road small tried
We've tried to discuss that about giving the defensemen a chance to maybe help out our goaltenders a little bit more. Listen, these new rules, it doesn't mean they're perfect. They're good, we need to adjust to them and hopefully down the road we'll make some small adjustments to them.
chance easy front job second start sticks third traffic unless
We have to get more traffic in front of the net. Those second and third chance opportunities won't come unless we start getting our sticks on some rebounds. But Belfour didn't make our job easy tonight.
attention bring issue maybe necessary ok sensitive time understand
I don't think it's necessary to bring attention to that. We're kind of sensitive to the issue and understand that maybe it's going to take him a little time to feel comfortable, but we're OK with that.
game hope next ready tuesday
He's day-to-day. We hope he'll be ready for our next game on Tuesday (against Phoenix).