Mike Johnston
Mike Johnston
Mike Johnstonis the head coach and general manager of the Portland Winterhawks hockey team of the Western Hockey League. He previously coached the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL from 2014-15. He was relieved of his duties on December 12, 2015. He was replaced by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PenguinsHead Coach Mike Sullivan. Johnston performed duties as the coach and general manager of the Winterhawks previously from 2008 to 2014, before taking over as coach of the Penguins for the 2014-15 NHL season. Before...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 February 1957
CityDartmouth, Canada
People tend to mistake Groundhog Day. It's not important. It's just important fun.
They played really hard tonight, Ithaca did. I thought they played really good basketball.
You saw everything, ... You saw one group on horses. How far they were going I don't know, but they were on horses on Interstate 10. We saw pickup trucks with people in wheelchairs, dogs, cats, you name it. ... It was unbelievable.
There is definitely a need for some commercialism on our part ... but we do it in a most selective manner.
If our viewers were worried about one specific thing, ... it was where 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel of Fortune' were going to be.
I'm excited. We've got some key positions we really need to replace. I think we've got a good nucleus of kids coming back and the question every year is it's going to come down to line play.
He's not saying there will be six more weeks of winter in Chicago or Philadelphia or Cleveland, but there will be somewhere.
It's a huge cost. We lose all our inventory. We can make up a lot of those spots, but it involves a lot of phone calls with clients. There's also a lot of overtime and a lot of other expenses people really don't think about.
It was just too many errors. I told the kids at halftime that we made three mistakes, and that's what put us in a hole. Maine-Endwell is a well-coached, disciplined team. We knew this would be a test. We've just got to keep getting better.
They're dedicated to making this work, and they're sacrificing their time and money.
As we move closer to completing this transaction, we are progressing with plans for significant additional restructuring actions over the next several years to achieve our goal of being a winning automotive supplier.
As repetitive as it can be, it's different every year.
They did a nice job getting it ready. We had to replant some seed and they've done a nice job of watering it every day and it looks pretty good. It's the best it's looked in a long time.
The good Lord was looking after us, ... We came within the skin of our teeth of not getting out, we had no way of getting out. We were very fortunate to get out at the last minute as we did.