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
anxious coach enthusiasm greatest love missed spirits
The greatest thing is the players' spirits are unbelievable. You can tell they're anxious to get back. They missed the game, they love the game. That makes it great for a coach when you have that enthusiasm on the ice.
extremely second
But the second thing is he just executes extremely well.
buildings
But they play in different buildings there. You don't have that same flavor.
chances harder played solid
He played a solid game. There were some chances that were a lot harder than I think they looked.
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.
came formed goes hanging identify north people team time
This organization came in and formed its own identity. Time goes on. People identify with this team more than hanging on to the North Stars' past.
games leave sour
They should think about this and how it feels. Games like this should leave a sour taste.
deal people players positive pushes success tradition
There's a lot of tradition in this organization, and expectations are very high. The players who come in here deal with those expectations in a positive way, and it pushes people forward. Success is something that is earned, and our players have that kind of mentality.
few funny last phone rang
It's funny, the phone hasn't rang the last few days.
far touch
It was a hole-in-the-wall, about as far from five-star as you can get. It was a touch of reality.
kids work
A lot of these Finnish kids come in look at his work ethic, and they think that's the way we have to be.
asking average bad chance expect goals good marty mistakes responsibility team
Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.
good hard stop work
There was a lot good, old-fashioned hard work out there. If you want to stop the bleeding, that's a good place to start.
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.