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
hoped planned start tough
Pretty deflating. It was a tough start obviously, not what we had hoped and planned for.
click clicked might quickly
It's 82 games. Sometimes it might not click as quickly or as well as you want it to, or sometimes not at all. For our team, we've clicked more than we haven't . . .
absolutely game goes nails
Absolutely unbelievable. This is a big, big game and Henrik goes in and nails it.
admirable choice elevate point
If he can elevate to the point where we have no choice, then it's possible. If he comes in and does an admirable job, then probably not.
above beyond call defend desire duty gone good guys habits hockey honest proudly work
Let's be honest about this hockey club, gang: These guys have gone above and beyond the call of duty from Day One. One thing we can proudly do is defend this team's good intentions, their work habits and their desire to win.
intentions leaning toward
I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.
contender continue cup games next people stanley surprise
I don't know if we're a Stanley Cup contender right now but I think we can continue to surprise a lot of people by what we do these next 20 games and the playoffs.
attached certainly execute game guess remains whether
My guess is we'll certainly be emotionally attached to the game like we should. Whether or not we execute in a way we want remains to be seen.
hope providing team
I hope what we're dong here is providing a template for what this team will look like in the future.
high repertoire shot slap
If he's going to dress, then I have high expectations. He can shoot. He may not be able to do the one-timer thing or the slap shot but that's never really been a part of his repertoire anyway.
bench care enjoy entire good people
The entire bench understands that these people really care and enjoy a good effort.
angry becoming blow challenge closer hope obviously playoff respond step terrific
I'm not going to blow a gasket or anything like that. But I'm angry that we didn't respond to another terrific challenge for us - another step to becoming better and nailing down respect. And another step closer we obviously hope to a playoff spot.
adjust definitive forcing movement penalty puck rather seem
We've had more movement. More definitive puck movement. More movement away from the puck. We seem to be a lot more pro-active in forcing the penalty killers to adjust to us rather than us adjust to the penalty killers.
kept offensive opposed team trying
We were reactive, as opposed to proactive. We were always trying to respond. In the offensive zone, I thought we were the better team than they were. But off the attack, they were outstanding. They kept getting odd-man rushes.