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.
found intense win
We weren't intense enough. There was no real flow. We found a way to win and it wasn't pretty.
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.
awful draw form game learn looking manage
We have to draw some conclusions form this game and how to manage the puck. You can learn an awful lot by looking at a loss. This happens.
afford cannot game growing growth heads hockey hurry stunted tonight
We really do have to get our heads around the way the game is being called. We're growing up in a hurry here, and we cannot afford to play hockey like we did tonight or our growth will be stunted in a real hurry.
afford building devils everybody happy minutes neat next ourselves past
We really can't afford to look past the next 20 minutes of hockey. There are some neat things building between the Devils and ourselves and we're happy about that for everybody concerned.
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.
beyond capable hope inspired players presence
My hope is that other players are inspired enough by his presence to really put out beyond what they've been capable of in the past.
becomes benefit box clear dealing doubt happy incapable nor obviously ourselves parade penalty pressure situations stay suggest types
Obviously the penalty parade would suggest I'm not completely happy at all, nor should (the players) be. There's no benefit of the doubt in the playoffs. You're in the big parade now and you've got to participate. It becomes obviously clear we're incapable of dealing with the pressure of these types of situations well enough to stay out of the penalty box and give ourselves a chance.
certainly far four games mission race
Mission important and possible. It's a race to four games and they've only got three. As far as I'm concerned, we can certainly do that.
figuring full hard last maybe nearly ourselves tonight work
Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game, figuring we'd arrived. It's not about arriving. It's about working to get somewhere. And we didn't work tonight - not nearly as hard as we have to.
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Maybe we got too full of ourselves after the last game and figured we had arrived. I'm not going to blow a gasket, but I'm angry that we didn't respond to a really terrific challenge for us.
chance giving hot ourselves ride
We're giving ourselves the chance to ride the hot guy.
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.