Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson
Former NHL defenseman who became the San Jose Sharks' general manager after retiring.
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth5 July 1957
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Two things really impressed me, ... The coaches had great structure. And the fitness level of the players allowed us to get a real high tempo right away.
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Finding the right place to drill was probably key to our success.
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Every day is a trade deadline to me, so there's different ways of acquiring players. We look every day at options and opportunities that are there.
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To me everybody has to share in the blame for the lack of success we had last year. The bottom line is that my job was to remove all the distractions and allow everybody to be completely focused on solely doing their job, having a great camp and getting ready for a great start. We don't dwell on last year anymore. We're excited about where we're at. To me how people respond to last year is the most important thing. I don't care about lip service. You can see the focus and the chance at redemption. Nobody wants to go through what they went through last year again.
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We had three or four guys who simply weren't ready to play. That shouldn't happen. As a professional athlete you should take pride in every performance. It shouldn't take a period and then getting ripped between the first and second periods to kind of wake up.
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She's a really nice lady, and she's a really talented coach. She was great with the kids, the best assistant I had in my eight seasons at Brown.
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The primary objective is to take care of your core group. We don't change how we've operated for the last couple of years. We certainly like where a lot of our own players are at, and it's an exciting time for this group.
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It would give us some flexibility to bring somebody up, give us options. Josh is a versatile player, but moving forward we want the flexibility.
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We are very pleased to have received funding for all the projects we forwarded to Washington,
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This is too good a group to not be in the playoffs. To take a step backward would have been really difficult.
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The bottom line is we're here to win hockey games. I'll put our goaltending up against any team in the league. This gives us a lot of strength moving towards the end of the season where we have a lot of games to play.
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This creates the opportunity for additional ice time for players like Marco Sturm, Niko Dimitrakos and Milan Michalek,
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They had a team meeting which was at the right time by the right people. And what was said in that room stays in that room amongst the players. But at the end of the day what came out is: 'We're playing for each other.' I think that had a dramatic impact in that the players took over the team as they should. And they have not let each other down.
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The reality is that we can't control where people are moving into. There are pains with the growth. I wish growth didn't have an impact on families, but it does.