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
acquire begin certainly corner free might minor mission playing playoff relief turn year
There might be a minor sense of relief there for the players. They've certainly been on a mission all year long to acquire this playoff spot. It might even free us up to begin to turn the corner and play like we had been playing for the most part of this year. I think we're a little tight.
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I don't want to call it nervous, maybe a little apprehensive. They just feel this huge obligation to be something real special this year when the fact of the matter is the only thing that's made us special is just hard, honest work.
chance earlier expectation felt happening reasonable year
I felt we had a reasonable chance of making the playoffs. Earlier in the year when this (success) was happening to us, it was pretty neat. We have an expectation now.
grow helped mature predicted special sure tremendous year
It's a special year for those reasons. Jaromir has just had a tremendous year and has helped us all grow and mature as a team, naturally. And then to get to a 100 points, I'm not sure we predicted that in September.
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You can pick all sorts of reasons out why we're doing all right this year and I can tell you Kevin Weekes has really contributed to that whole thing by the nature of how he's chosen to deal with the situation.
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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.
direction generally played solid step towards
I thought we played a solid game. I thought we were, generally speaking, pretty complete. I'm going to look at this as a step in the right direction towards the playoffs.
goals good stop
I thought they scored some pretty good goals . If you can't see it, you can't stop it.
huge obligation
I think we may be a little apprehensive. They just feel this huge obligation to be something special.
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Jaromir really cares about this kid. He's helped him with his language; he talks to him all the time in English.
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I think everyone feels honored to be part of it. Jaromir comes to work every day and displays what you could only hope for in a player like that, with his work habits and the way he treats his teammates and the respect he shows the organization and the coaching staff.
feels honored
I think everyone feels honored to be part of it.
acceptable help ice intention level performance time today understand worked
Our intention is that every time we go on the ice we have a purpose, and there is a level of performance that is acceptable and one that isn't. Sometimes we help them understand what acceptable is. Today was no problem. They worked hard.
couple power puck work
Our power play got us a couple of big ones and our PK did what it had to do. Keep the puck to the outside. They work very, very hard.