George Gwozdecky
George Gwozdecky
George Gwozdecky is a Canadian ice hockey coach. He resigned as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey Leaguein June 2015. He has recently accepted a job as the head hockey coach at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, CO...
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As I've jokingly said to some of the people out here, some of our veterans are starting to get interested. No question, we're playing our best hockey of the season right now.
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It was a pretty heavy emotional burden to carry before the game. Everyone seemed to sense that this was a game we had to have.
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Earl is their quickest player. He can break a game open.
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They couldn't score and didn't play as well defensively. But once he got healthy, the ship was righted and they were right back on course again.
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I told them, 'Thank you very much. But it sure would be a lot sweeter to celebrate after No. 405,'
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Our three teams the last three seasons have been remarkably different. We lost nearly half our team from last season, eight players, and we've had to become much more of a three-line team.
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(Wisconsin) is a team that made its mark playing great defense. (Friday night) they played solid. But the big difference was Glenn Fisher for us. He kept us in the game in the first period. He played extremely well.
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(Tonight), Game 2 of the series, we need it. We need to win that game, and we need to perform better. And I'm very positive that we will.
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We wanted to create some good bounces for ourselves, and yet not only do they get the first goal, but two of the first three goals went off us. Those are difficult things to swallow, especially when you're trying as hard as this team has been.
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We saw it as a high stick. There was no doubt.
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We knew their team was better than their record, yet I think perhaps as a team we did not give them the respect they were due.
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Throughout the season, Matt's been able to play at a very high level. It's not often that a defenseman is able to be among the top scorers in the league. That tells you how gifted he is offensively. He also is our No. 1 guy matching up with other team's top line. He's extremely valuable to us. Out of all the teams we played, I don't recall seeing a defenseman on the ice better than Matt.
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We fought very hard to put ourselves in position to get the second seed, and to not be able to move on and prolong our postseason play is disappointing. Anytime you're eliminated before you want to, it's difficult. But with this team, it's especially difficult considering some of the great play we've seen from this team throughout the year.
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We struggled this weekend. We didn't play with any effort or emotion last night and Princeton took advantage. Tonight, we had better effort but our confidence and execution wasn't good enough.