Jeff Halpern
Jeff Halpern
Jeffrey Craig Halpernis an American former professional ice hockey player...
fast guys hooking wrap
You have to be fast now. You used to be able to get by with hooking and holding. Not now. You can't wrap guys up the way it was in the past.
brings closest figure gets group guys hard road team trips
This is probably the closest group of guys we've had. Trips like this help, because it gets everybody, especially the guys with families, involved. It brings us together. The way our team plays, we should play as well as on the road as we do at home. It's hard to figure out.
admit ashamed definitely easier games guys next played playing point pride time wanting win
It's definitely easier if you're in the playoffs. From that sense, this is a completely different mind-set from where you want to be. But at the same time there are a lot of guys here playing for jobs, playing for next year. At this point you're playing for pride and wanting to win as a group. But I admit we should be ashamed about some of the games we've played lately.
agents almost free guys picked traded
It's almost like getting traded because there's going to be a lot of new faces. There's a lot of free agents we picked up or guys we traded for.
guys surprise
It's going to be interesting to see how the young guys have developed. There's always one or two guys who surprise everyone.
dollars estimate hundred million risk several total
We estimate Qwest's at-risk revenues from this arrangement total several hundred million dollars annually.
finding games good lost overtime quite teams ways
That's the hump, the one-goal games that we have lost all year, the overtime games that we have lost all year. I think we've done good things at times just finding ways to win. Good teams find a way to win, and we are close. It's not quite there.
goal start tried
When we've been down a goal at the start of the third, we've tried to make too much happen,
chance game gave half
We had a chance, we were up 3-0 with half the game done. We gave them a chance to come back.
giving needed
We were giving up between 35 and 50 shots, so something needed to change.
played
When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.
gave respect result room time
If anything, it was more us than Thornton. We gave him too much respect and as a result he had room to operate. We can't give him that much time and space.
determined evidence paperwork smell
From the preponderance of evidence in their paperwork alone, we determined that there was too much going on that didn't smell right.
adam advantage games hunter invaluable job looked steve talk took year
I always looked up to those guys, ... I was able to have Dale Hunter to talk to my first year when he had a job in the organization. Just being able to talk to him after games and after practices, it was an invaluable experience. And to play with Adam Oates and Steve Konowalchuk, there was a lot to learn. Hopefully, I took advantage of that.