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
contingent respect
We just thought we'd show even more respect for our contingent that what we have. It's an international game.
assess both careful chance putting sure
We're going to be really very, very careful here and make sure that we give him a chance to assess where he is, both psychologically and physically, before we even contemplate putting him back in.
feeling love loves preparing team
We're preparing for a team we love to play and who loves to play us. My feeling is we'll be much better.
nights win
We'll have better nights than we had. We'll win again.
bad shot
The only bad shot is one you don't take.
heard suck
When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.
stuck
We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.
chance emotional fact four gives hurt olympic three tough type weeks
Three to four weeks gives us a chance at four. It's an emotional roller-coaster for him. He's never had this type of injury, so first, the fact that he's hurt and that it interrupts his Olympic experience, it's pretty tough for him.
bigger couple course game stay
We're going to stay the course and keep working at it. We had a game as we have had a couple of other times. We don't want to make it bigger than what it is.
believing calming capable fits matter progress proud settling sort system within work
We're a work in progress and we're scrambling and scratching and clawing to kind of be what we were so proud to be earlier. And we're close. We're getting there sort of in fits and starts. But it's a matter of settling down, calming down and believing in everything that we're capable of doing within our system and we'll be fine.
chance giving hot ourselves ride
We're giving ourselves the chance to ride the hot guy.
philly realistic
We need some pop. Going into Philly (tomorrow) ... we want him to get some realistic work.
attack fell needed rubber
We did not attack the way we needed to. It started to get away from us when we fell behind. We didn't put enough rubber at the net.
along bit bring cloth confidence envelope further goes hope identified level push squeeze sure
We sure hope that we've identified with one thing and that is stability, and the level of, I guess, confidence that goes along with that so you can even push the envelope further and squeeze the cloth a little bit more to bring even more out of people.