Tom Renney
Tom Renney
Thomas "Tom" Renneyis the president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada. He was previously an ice hockey Associate Coach with the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and also served as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, and Edmonton Oilers...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 March 1955
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The Devils have been playing playoff hockey for a while. It's a real good opportunity for us to pay attention to how you can turn a season around, and you can do that in one game. And with that in mind, game on.
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The first 10 minutes suggests something was amiss with our team and our approach.
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This is all about winning here. No one knows that better than Kevin Weekes. He's made it easy on me ... Kevin will be ready to play, then we'll move on and get our wins with him, too.
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The entire bench understands that these people really care and enjoy a good effort.
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The guys really understood the game plan. We worked with them all night long. We kept them to the outside; they didn't get a lot of second chances.
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The guys don't know me real well yet and I don't know them real well yet.
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The difference-maker tonight. The strength of the man, his ability to get around the defense and get it to the net and put it away is just unbelievable.
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You want to do better than that. You want to answer the bell. We did have a strong game against New Jersey. But so what? That one's over.
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All the cliches fit. It's a very valuable time for us if we get through this adversity, because it's going to galvanize our group and define our organization moving forward.
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You've got to have a minimum of two options every time with the puck. If those options are gone by poor positioning by your teammates, you're in a pickle so you try to do things that just don't exist. We made some bad choices, not just him.
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I thought we would probably do Henrik well by giving him a breather before he went over to Europe, so it serves two purposes.
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It interrupts things . . . delays things a little bit, but I don't think we need to be overly concerned by that.
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It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifically for Pittsburgh.
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I think that what's happening now is that this side of the pond is starting to realize exactly how good this young fellow is. Certainly in Europe and those of us who have had experience over there sort of saw this coming ? not to this degree, I'm not going to take credit for that. But certainly people are starting to realize this guy's for real.