Michel Therrien
Michel Therrien
Michel Therrienis a Canadian ice hockey coach, who is currently the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. Prior to his current stint with Montreal, Therrien had previously coached the Canadiens for three seasons and then the Pittsburgh Penguins...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 November 1963
CityMontreal, Canada
emotional
Sidney Crosby is an emotional guy. You don't want to take that away. It's part of his game.
admiration gold good great junior kid last love medal people player plays team won year
He's a player that in Canada, they love the way he plays and he got a lot of admiration last year when he went to the World Junior and won a gold medal for Team Canada. He's a great kid and a good person, and that's what people like about him. They can tell he's a good person.
rest sure
This is not only for a weekend. It's probably for the rest of the season, because we want to make sure of that when we make decisions.
decide
It's up to him to decide when to make a comeback.
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Most of the penalties, they were not even scoring chances. Sometimes they were close to 200 feet away from our net. Those are bad penalties. We're going to have to be smarter. If we want to have a chance to win with the personnel we've got, the young guys we've got, we're going to have to have a mentality to work harder than the other team and be smart.
expected played solid
He was solid defensively, and he played the way I expected him to.
anyone character good wants
Anyone with good character wants to give it another shot.
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He's a leader of that team. He's a great example for young players, with his work ethic. He makes a huge commitment to fitness. He makes a huge commitment to what it takes to become a great player.
developing games key months save three turned
He's young. He just turned 21 three months ago. Yes, we want him to make the key save at the right time, and he's doing that most of the time. There are going to be games when he's not able to make it, but that's part of developing young kids. If you don't put him out there, he's not going to get that experience.
moved played solid
He played really well. He moved the puck, and he was solid defensively. He played like I was expecting.
direction
I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.
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It's so great just to get to the Super Bowl and so great for the city. Pittsburgh is just a great city for sports. Things on the hockey side have been tough lately, but we're rebuilding and we're cheering them on.
playing
He's playing well. He's hungry. He battled hard.
attitude bounce confident doubt mind players
There's no doubt in my mind we are going to play a better game. I think the players have some pride. They want to bounce back. It's all about attitude and what kind of attitude the players display. I'm confident they have what it takes.