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
execute plan playing second supposed team tough
We started playing in the second period. We started to execute our plan in the second period. When we're doing what we're supposed to do, we're a tough team to play against.
came felt period played power second
He came to see us after the second period and felt that he could try on the power play and we played him on the power play.
direction
I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.
almost break game played saw tv
I saw the game on TV when they played here, and Caron played really well that game. He almost stole the game. I wanted to give him a game before we go to the break and thought that was the right game to put him out there.
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.
good hockey played seeing
That's the kind of hockey we're used to seeing from the Devils. They played a really good game.
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.
Marc-Andre Fleury was phenomenal. It could have been really ugly.
best great ice played team
We were the best team on the ice (today), by far. We played a great game.
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.