Marc Crawford
Marc Crawford
Marc Joseph John Crawfordis a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, currently working as an associate coach for the Ottawa Senators. He previously won a Stanley Cup in 1996 while coaching the Colorado Avalanche. He is also a former professional ice hockey forward who played for the Vancouver Canucks...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 February 1961
CityBelleville, Canada
certainly ended family thankful time
I am disappointed by how things ended here but I'm certainly nothing but thankful of the time that myself and my family have had here.
great hockey learning playing practice rest saves
He made some great saves in the third. He's been playing a lot of hockey for us. We haven't been able to get him as much rest as we'd like to and as much practice as we'd like to ... but he's really learning how to compete. You can see that.
alex fought found himself saw screens
I thought Alex did things well with the puck, saw pucks well and fought to keep position. And he found some pucks in scrambles and he fought off screens where he made himself big.
hopefully passion spirited team tonic
It'll be spirited and hopefully that'll be the tonic that allows our team to play with passion.
anytime couple puck saw seeing
He saw the puck and got a couple of deflections. Anytime you read the deflections and make the saves, you know you're seeing the puck well as a goaltender.
adversity beyond body great minutes playing push wants yourselves
It was 53 minutes of playing great hockey. You have to find a way to push yourselves when adversity strikes. Sometimes you've got to push your body beyond what it wants to do.
hitting improve opportunity ourselves simple task
If we improve the shots, that simple task of hitting the net, we give ourselves a better opportunity to be successful.
accomplish brought club couple cup difficult included job stanley vision
It's been a very difficult couple of days, as you can imagine. I wasn't able to accomplish the job I was brought here for. I had a vision for this club and it included a Stanley Cup and a parade.
caught injuries minnesota
Minnesota has a lot of injuries and, tonight, we caught them at the right time. But that's the NHL.
emotional hopefully next type win
This type of emotional win will hopefully catapult us into the next game.
anybody certainly division past performed strong work
There certainly is no division in our group. It's a strong group. Right now, because we haven't performed well, yeah, we're a little fragile. How do you get past that? You get past that like anybody does in their lives, you work hard.
healthy winning
Winning a lot at the end is important, but not everything because you need to be healthy going into the playoffs.
challenge ourselves prepared
We've prided ourselves with being prepared for each challenge that we face. We didn't do that.
awful chance gave great happen hop horrendous instead start talked trying
We concentrated an awful lot on our start tonight. We talked about what we wanted to do and still got off to a horrendous start. We're trying to make something happen and instead we gave a great chance right off the hop to one of the better shooters in the league.