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
bad chance close feet guys harder mentality personnel scoring team win work
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.
bad certain coaching players ready responsibility staff tonight
There are certain things a coaching staff can do. But it's up to the players to be prepared. It's part of their responsibility to come and be ready to play and ready to work. Tonight was a bad performance.
bad confidence decisions rushed rushing
We made some bad decisions. When you don't win, you're tense. You probably don't think the same way. You're rushing things because the confidence is not there. We rushed some decisions. That was a big part.
against bad cost decisions good lost strength
We made some bad decisions and it cost us the game. We lost momentum. Even strength we were pretty good against this team.
against bad cost sure team took
We took some bad penalties. This is something that we told our team, not to take bad penalties, and we took some bad penalties. Against a team like that, for sure it's going to cost and again (Monday) it cost.
bad cause cost penalties took
The penalties cost the game. Usually the bad penalties cause goals, and we took some bad ones.
direction
I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.
chances good phenomenal
Marc-Andre was phenomenal and we capitalized on our chances and did a lot of good things.
chances good
Marc-Andre was phenomenal, and we capitalized on our chances and did a lot of good things.
against five top unit
We like our unit of five against top players.
against best breaks calls few hard ice played team though win worked
Yeah, we played hard. We worked hard and played hard and I though we were the best team on the ice tonight, but we need breaks to win games. We didn't have any breaks -- all the breaks were against us. A few calls were against us, so it was one of those nights.
found good guys home needed played prove strong themselves
We found a way. That's a good thing, especially after the way we played at home. I think guys have a lot of things to prove to themselves and their teammates. We needed a strong game, and we got a strong game.
liked worked
We worked hard. We were aggressive. I really liked the way we played.
game last mind played react saw three
Yeah, I like what I saw from the way they played the last game and even the game before, when we made that move. This is something I had in my mind for two or three weeks, how he was going to react as a winger.