Mark Recchi
Mark Recchi
Mark Louis Recchiis a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional player. He is currently the player development coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins Recchi played 22 years in the National Hockey League. Recchi was a member of three Stanley Cup-winning teams, the 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins, the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes the 2011 Boston Bruins. In game two of the 2011 Finals, he became the oldest player ever to score in a Stanley Cup Finals series...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth1 February 1968
CityKamloops, Canada
desperate played toronto
They played better than us. Toronto was much better than us. ... We weren't as desperate as them.
compete eventually guys hard honest played positive starting stay team turn ways
We played hard (Saturday). Eventually, we're going to find ways to win. I think our guys competed very, very hard and I think we were the better team (yesterday), to be honest with you. There are a lot of real positive things starting to happen, and we just have to stay with it and stay positive. If we compete like this, we'll eventually turn this thing around.
decent focused forward game lose move played positives stay sure
We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.
deal four good great half hard learning losses played pride third trouble work year
It's like 'Groundhog Day' half the time. We can take away that we showed a great deal of pride in the third and played hard and battled, but we did the same things that have been getting us in trouble all year to get us down four goals. We haven't been very good at learning from our mistakes, from our losses and even from our wins, and that's something we have work on.
behind early good hockey played until whatever
We don't play good hockey until we get behind for whatever reason. If we'd played like that early in games, we wouldn't get into trouble.
couple focused frustrated games goes next older responsibility saw stays
(Yesterday) was really the first day I saw him frustrated in practice. We'll see how it goes the next couple games and if need be, the older guys, that's part of our responsibility to see that he stays focused on the right things.
easy losing team trying wear
It hasn't been easy what he's had to do. The team's losing more and he's trying to keep the team in Pittsburgh. It's got to wear on you after a while.
fun great
I think it's going to be great for the game. It's really going to be a fun thing.
fun players premier
Staal is one of the premier young players in this league. It's fun working with him.
advantage
When you get goaltending like that, you have to take advantage of it.
definitely focused looking positives quit stay
We didn't quit and that's important. We are looking for a lot of positives right now. We've got to stay focused and positive and those were definitely positive signs.
good learn ourselves start
We have to learn from this, not just get excited. We have to learn from this and start something where we at least feel good about ourselves going into the (Olympic) break.
allowed game goals good hockey opportunity period road stronger teams third win
We had an opportunity to win the hockey game in the third period and allowed two goals right in the slot. Good road teams don't let that happen. We have to get better at a lot of things right now and we will, but that's one thing we have to get stronger at.
balance direction figure push starting trying
We're starting to figure it out. We've got a lot of new faces. We've got balance between young and old. And everybody's trying to push in the right direction to find the right way to play.