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
ahead assume experience might road sure tougher
It is important to experience everything that you might see in the playoffs. But having said that, we have to make sure that we don't assume anything...And if we play the way we did tonight, it's going to be a tougher road ahead of us than we think.
I think they know how to play us, obviously.
maybe skate
I think they've been a little tight, maybe now they'll be able to skate freer.
against gate good ground
If you don't come out the gate well you stumble. Then you have to try and make up ground against good teams.
easy goes guy testimony
For a guy that's a No. 1 goaltender in this league, he has made this as easy as it could be on a coach. That's a testimony to him. When he goes back in it won't be a token little thanks, 'Kevin, here you go.' It'll be because we need him, we want him, and we need a win.
bit number
For a number of us, we've been in a bit of a flat-line.
best bring intense terrific
It was a terrific game. It was intense enough to bring out the best in everyone.
attention bad healing opportunity pay rest small
It's bad enough to rest him but he could play. It's a small fracture in there but it's something we have to pay attention to and take an opportunity to give him some healing rest.
gun jump mean people ready stay
It's got to stay separate, I don't think we should jump the gun on this one either. We want people to play when they're ready and able to play. And able doesn't necessarily mean 100%.
bargain certainly exciting happy hope
It's an exciting time, obviously, I think for everyone. We hope to live up to our end of the bargain and make it exciting for our fans. But certainly we're happy to be back.
absolutely beam helpful less press run sum
It'll be helpful to get to know ... can he run the table? Can he play a seven-game series? Does he play when he's absolutely on the beam or does he press too much to where he's less than the sum of his parts?
adds almost belief beyond cup drought equate guess sort stanley
It's beyond belief. You sort of equate that with the drought with the Stanley Cup and I guess it adds up but it's almost unbelievable.
change fix people point solutions stand time year
It's interesting; at what point in time do we stand up and say, we need this, we've got to fix this, change this? We know what we want, we know what we need. We also know we're not going to give up young people to do anything at all. We also know some of those solutions we don't have here this year are coming.
net pushed quite rebound sure tough
I'm not so sure we pushed the envelope, quite honestly. When you don't make it tough for the opponent, it's not real tough to defend. We didn't have a lot of net drive. We didn't have a lot of rebound opportunities.