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
becoming earn feather good regular season
It's a feather in your cap. I don't think you should underestimate the regular season. For us, we had to earn our way to becoming a good team, and the regular season did that for us.
becomes deserve extra factor game outweigh rhythm seven stronger
It's not that seven don't deserve to play or can't play, but rhythm in the game becomes a stronger factor that will outweigh an extra player.
good playoffs
Everybody's healthy. Turco is going into the playoffs with no hiccups this year. So we feel good about where we're at.
looked neither
They have skill, that's for sure. It's just the first day, obviously, but neither of them looked out of place out there.
climbed hill hills
It's a big hill but big hills have been climbed before.
break expected few time
It wasn't unexpected. Actually, I probably expected a few more. It will take time to break some habits.
camp couple eight four judge last minimum moves played required three throw veteran
It's the only way to judge them, throw them in those games. We are required to play eight veteran players, and we'll probably have the minimum the first couple of games. As camp moves on, because we haven't played in a while, those last three of four games, I'd like to have the lineup kind of set.
bad clean force marty neutral zone
It made them rework their plan. He's just so good. If we can clog up the neutral zone and force them into bad dumps, Marty will clean up a lot of that.
gone
It may have gone the other way now in that if you don't have Europeans, then you don't have enough skill.
few funny last phone rang
It's funny, the phone hasn't rang the last few days.
indication issue received
It was never an issue for me. I have never received any indication that anything had changed.
chance early good line picking
It's way too early to be picking out line combinations. And there's still a good chance the two could play on the same line.
capable choice hard job somebody
It's very hard choices. It's not as if somebody is not capable or not getting the job done. But at the end of the day, it makes us a better team.
bite couple decisions forward four games last looked next nobody time win won
The last couple games, we have made decisions that have come back to bite us. You have to look forward to the next game. You have to win four games to win a series, and the last time I looked nobody has won four yet.