Ken Holland
Ken Holland
Kenneth Mark Hollandis the current General Manager and executive Vice President of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Holland was drafted in the 12th round, 188th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1975 NHL Entry Draft. He played a total of four games in the NHL: one with Hartford, and three with Detroit. In 2009 Holland was listed at #2 on Sports Illustrated's Top GMs/Executives of the Decade...
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Pavel signed a contract with Omsk, ... and then another team, Moscow Dynamo, matched it. His agent has told me ... there's no out clause in the contract. Obviously, it's a matter now of Pavel negotiating ... to see if there's a way that he can get out.
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He still has the passion and the desire to play, and he's going to help this hockey team.
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Hockey is a physical sport and injuries are an everyday part of our game. A key to our success is treating those injuries with the highest possible level of health care and that's what we receive from our team physicians at Detroit Medical Center.
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One thing we can carry into the playoffs is the fact we've been so consistent. This team should feel good about what it accomplished.
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He's got a partially torn MCL, he's got a torn ACL, ... He's out 4-6 months.
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He's got skill, and he gives us depth. He's a guy who could help us.
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Given our recent history with groin injuries, they tend to take a little longer than you think. We've had players come back, feel OK, and then re-injure themselves.
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Other than maybe two or three games right after the Olympic break, Manny has been very consistent, very solid the entire year. He has done a lot of winning for us.
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I negotiated from May 2004 to early September 2004 with them and we were so far apart at that point in time that I guess I was figuring if we picked up where we left off we were a long ways apart, ... We'll see what happens.
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He put a lot of thought into this decision, and I'm glad he decided to return,
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Talking to other general managers, I do expect there to be (player) movement. There are enough teams not in contention, they will be selling.
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We've had great success, and Europeans have been a big part of that. When Scotty put together the Russian Five, that was really the start of the Red Wings we see today. I think it even had an impact on how we developed our drafting philosophy and scouting philosophy.
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We're very, very concerned heading into the new season, ... but I think it's a natural reaction. We haven't played hockey for a year. The standards and expectations remain very high.
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We wanted to be one of the top three seeds. We knew Nashville was going to be a real good team, and after the first 45-50 games they were ahead of us, but our guys have really stuck to it.