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
angry anxious hope planning sooner stages start
You go through stages after getting bounced sooner than you'd hope to. You go through your angry stage, where you feel like you should still be playing. And then you go through the stage where you start planning and want to get things corrected. And then you get to the anxious stage, where you feel like you want to get going and get some of the planning out of the way. We're getting to the anxious stage here. We want to get going and see what we come up with.
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We were fortunate to win in a shootout. Marty was excellent and he made some big saves for us, and we found a couple of ways to score.
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Bill knows how he's going to have to play in the playoffs. I've had long conversations with Bill about how he can most help our team. If he can get his game elevated enough and going, it's another plus for us.
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Bill knows how he's going to have to play in the playoffs.
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Both our goals were hard plays at the net. Brenden goes hard to the net ? just grit plays. You do those enough, and you get rewarded.
blocking game win
Blocking shots, it's going to hurt. You can't win in this game without getting hurt.
gave stepped time
Every time he stepped on the ice, he gave everything he had.
everybody knows secrets
Everybody in the NHL knows what everybody else does anyway. There's not a lot of big secrets out there about the game.
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We've got a great group of guys, great leaders who've focused on preparing for the playoffs. This is the time when you earn your stripes. We've put ourselves in good position; now we have to go prove it in the playoffs.
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We've played well in some adverse situations. I hope that trip was some character building for our team.
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We put the challenge to him and he made a great impression. They can be a very dominating line. The thing about them is that they are so big and strong and in back-to-back games they came out and were just as strong the second night. They were an integral part of our win.
concerns game perception
We do have concerns with the perception of our game and the credibility of our game.
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We're going against a team where the whole game plan going in was to take advantage of our turnovers and soft mental play. We were pushing to take that mental play out of the equation, but there were too many times it came into it.
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We won't be successful in a playoff game like that. We'll take the win and learn from our mistakes. It's easy to whine and cry. But we'll whine and cry our way right out of the playoffs if we do that.