Dave Tippett
Dave Tippett
David G. "Dave" Tippettis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League. He is the sixth head coach of the Coyotes and the 21st coach in the Phoenix Coyotes/Winnipeg Jets franchise...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 August 1961
CityMoosomin, Canada
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Instead we challenged him and decided to see what would happen and we challenged the rest of the players to bail him out.
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I really think the NHL is going to stick to its guns this time, and I think that's good. You don't want to allow an inferior team to take back an advantage they haven't earned.
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I like it. Fans get to see two teams punch and counter punch a little bit., It builds up a rivalry and it makes for a very good hockey game.
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I'm more excited than nervous. It's been a long wait.
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I like what they're doing with the rules. The rules are taking players out of the game whose primary job is fighting and forcing teams to consider using players who can skate and play.
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I like what they're doing with the rules.
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He sees them as well as anybody, and I trust what he has to stay.
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He's the kind of guy that you know he's a solid player and does a lot of little things well in the game. But he's certainly a guy that as you become more familiar with him, he grows on you. . . . There's a lot of factors to his game that he keeps showing you as it goes on, and I think we're still in the early stages with him. But so far, we've been very happy with what we've seen.
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Games come down to little things and commitment and willing to jump into battles. There wasn't enough commitment (Saturday).
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He can be a horse. He's so big and so strong. When he gets a head of steam, he's hard to defend. He's using all the tools he has.
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He played a solid game. There were some chances that were a lot harder than I think they looked.
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He puts the work in. It's funny how smart players find a way to get smarter. That's what he does.
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You try to stop the bleeding. You have to recognize what's happening. You have to recognize the situation and fix it. You don't fix things by talking about it. You fix things by doing it.
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You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.