Randy Carlyle
Randy Carlyle
Randolph Robert Carlyleis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the head coach of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks and formerly the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was raised in Azilda, just northwest of Sudbury, Ontario. He won the Stanley Cup in 2007 with the Ducks during his first stint with the team. As a player, Carlyle dressed for over 1000 games between the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets, winning...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 April 1956
CityGreater Sudbury, Canada
control earn game heck inch job officials plan playoffs skill space tonight
Obviously, their game plan was to go after our skill players, and that's posturing for the playoffs. That's the way the playoffs are. You earn every inch of space on the ice. I think the officials are going to have to take control of some of the situations. I thought they did a heck of a job tonight in that respect.
continue game improve position push
Nothing changes. One game at a time. We're not in a position to do anything more than try to improve where we are in the standings and improve our position for the playoffs. We're going to continue to push in that direction.
change decision list players six three weeks
We made a decision probably three weeks ago that we were going to go with some of these guys. We made a list of six or seven, and those players were on it. We thought we'd change it up a bit.
bad beginning behind happen high hockey performed planned training word
Obviously, we had planned to have Sergei as part of our hockey club. Things happen behind the scenes, and you have to make adjustments. It's unfortunate that Sergei got hurt. He did everything right from the beginning of training camp, performed at a high level. I can't say a bad word about him.
kids transition trying
The transition for him hasn't been smooth. He's one of those kids who's trying to find his way right now.
bottom effort line ourselves prepare team
Is it the end of the world? No, they're up 2-1 in the series. The bottom line is we have to prepare ourselves for more of a team effort than we got from our group.
great position providing proving reinforced team wants
Sammy has reinforced his position on our team and it's great to see that he's providing some offense. Does he want to be a five-goal scorer? Or a 10-goal scorer? Or a 15- to 20-goal scorer? He's proving he wants to be the latter.
players positively seem
Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.
execution level near needed nowhere
Our execution level was nowhere near where it needed to be,
feet group happy hockey lost nervous outcome time
After the first 10 minutes, we got through a nervous time and we started to do more of things we're able to do as a group. Are you happy that your group competed and got their feet wet. Yeah, you're happy in that sense, but you're not happy with the outcome because we lost the hockey game.
box cannot game officials penalty
The officials have set the standard. We cannot be in the penalty box as much as we were (in Game 2).
biggest bury effort result
The result is the biggest negative. Our effort was good, we had chances, but we just didn't bury the puck.
advantage break expectation fresh olympic players provide
They provide us with the Olympic break and we have to take advantage of it. Our expectation will be for our players to come back fresh and ready.
against bang break club head hockey mentally motivate people prepare scratch sudden ways worked
You don't want to do anything that you haven't done before, or do anything drastic. We prepare our hockey club the way we think is needed, and it's worked for the better part of the year. Now all of a sudden we come out of the break and we can't find that. We will bang our head against the wall, and we'll scratch and claw and try to find ways to motivate people that have to be mentally more prepared.