Dave Nonis
Dave Nonis
David M. Nonisis a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman. He is a special assignment scout for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey Leagueand serves as a consultant to the team's general manager, Bob Murray...
earn players step
You'd like to have players with more experience, but we do have some vets on the back end and it's important that they step up and earn their keep.
anyone available deals few help knew offered people players pull trigger
If people knew what was available and what it costs, I don't think there's anyone out there that would pull the trigger on what has been offered to this point. There have been very few deals for a reason. There are players you can get for less, but they're not going to help you.
chance change coaching giving looking players win
There won't be a coaching change this year. We're giving everyone a chance to win and (Crawford) is part of that. If the players are looking for a way out, that's not it.
absolve blame clear fact falls further locker mean people players shoulders spread
I want to make it clear this does not absolve the players for their part in this season. In no way does this mean there will be no further changes. No way. The fact is there is a lot of blame to be spread around and a lot of it falls on the shoulders of people that were in that locker room.
easy finger good guy hockey players point team
It's easy to point the finger at one guy and I don't think that's fair. At the end of the day, we've got a pretty good hockey team and it's up to the players to perform. They're the ones who go on the ice, not Marc.
cases certain listening message players
It wasn't because the message wasn't correct. It was in some cases that certain players weren't listening to that message.
best course helpful picking players throughout year
Picking out one or two players isn't helpful to anybody. With that said, your best players have to be your best players throughout the course of the year if you want to have some success.
deeper
I think we need some new energy, new juice. It does not go any deeper than that.
assistants coach considered good head hopeful obviously point strongly whoever work
Whoever the head coach is will obviously have some say in who his assistants are. I would be hopeful that they will be strongly considered and we will have something to say about that as well. They have done a lot of good work here. At this point they are still with us.
felt fire great known marc needed team
Marc is a great coach, a great friend. But we felt our team needed a kick-start. We didn't play with the fire we've known in the past. At some point, you need a new direction.
entire felt given hold rely season time
We felt that at this time it's something that we couldn't rely on to hold up through the entire season given that he has to go up and down on it all the time.
experience marc taken
We need to get back to where Marc Crawford had taken us. Head-coaching experience is a plus. We'll make the appropriate search.
alex bring help
We wanted to bring in someone to help Alex and that s what we accomplished.
adding amateur both eric excited franchise harold management passionate pro scouting staff strengthen strongly team
We are very excited to be adding both Harold and Eric to our scouting staff. We feel very strongly that adding Harold to Ron Delorme's amateur scouting staff and Eric to our pro scouting staff will strengthen the department. It is important to our management team that both Harold and Eric have been with our franchise before and are passionate about the Canucks organization.