Lou Lamoriello
Lou Lamoriello
Louis A. "Lou" Lamoriellois an American professional ice hockey executive and the current general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Lamoriello, who had been with the New Jersey Devils from 1987 to 2015, served longer with a single team than any general manager in NHL history except Conn Smythe and Art Ross. On May 4, 2015, he stepped down as general manager of the Devils. On July 23 he became the 16th general manager of...
answers performing players
I'm the person who has to find those answers and those solutions. We have some players who are not performing up to expectations. That's not acceptable.
everybody great lines moved played power puck
I don't know if everybody played better just because he was there, because he's only on one line. I thought all the lines did the little things that had to be done. Turnovers were minimal. Our positional play was one of the better. I thought our power play moved the puck and had great chances. That's all you want.
decision
I am not going to make a decision just to make a decision.
step
I don't look at it as a step back by any means.
add caliber coaching dave delighted felt herb necessary preparing talent type variety wide
Herb and I are delighted to add Dave to our coaching staff. He has a wide variety of coaching experience. Also, with the type of young talent we have at Utica, we felt it was necessary to have someone of Robbie's caliber preparing our product.
believe pleased
I don't think any of us is really pleased with where we find ourselves. You can look at a lot of different reasons, but I don't believe you ever look for excuses.
certainly cost individual mistakes score second sort
It's certainly disappointing. In the second period, we sort of had all the territorial advantages, but still couldn't score the goals. We made individual mistakes and they cost us.
impressive
You could look right through that lineup tonight, and I don't know if you could find any passengers. That, to me, is the most impressive thing you could say.
ask game gave legs true
You can't ask for a better game than what Tommy gave us. He's a true veteran. I could see he got his legs under him.
player games people
I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.
not-good-enough enough good-enough
Good is not good enough when better is expected
softball sports motivation
You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.
allow biggest compliment core focused looking maturity maybe opportunity pay room streak team today totally tremendous
I think the biggest compliment that I could pay this team today is that that they're not looking at this streak as something totally exceptional. They're more focused on doing the things maybe we weren't doing to allow us to have the opportunity to win. ... I sense a tremendous maturity in that room with the core character. I couldn't be more impressed.
amount fellows four last minutes number people time top
Our four top defensemen get X number of minutes of ice, ... These young fellows will get the same amount of minutes as the people did last year. They will have time to develop.