Wes Walz
Wes Walz
Wesley Walzis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and former assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. Wes currently works as a sports analyst on Fox Sports North for the Minnesota Wild Hockey Club. Walz volunteered as an assistant coach with the Raptors of East Ridge High School, Woodbury, Minnesota. There he coached his son, Kelvin, on the boys varsity ice hockey team and a few years later he coached his daughter, Jaedyn, on...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth15 May 1970
consistency days games last peaks played row seven stretch together valleys year
We've had more peaks and valleys in the consistency of our play this year than, I think, any other. If we can have a stretch where we put another six, seven games in a row together here, where we've played like we have over the last 10 days or so, we could be there.
backs bike dressing guys hard respect tries warrior works
Willie's a warrior for us. He's one of those guys when he talks, he backs up what he says. He works hard after practices. He'll be on the bike after a game. He tries to get better, and he has a lot of respect from guys in our dressing room.
far feels playoffs sliding
It feels like it's sliding away as far as making the playoffs a reality.
almost few guys taking team
When you got a few guys out of the lineup, the other team has the puck. It's almost 60-40. When you got the puck, you're not going to be taking many penalties. Sometimes, it's now how many you take it's when you take them.
chance gets good puck
When Gabby gets the puck on a two on one, there's a good chance he's going to be shooting.
fold good guys hard knock pack rivalry team
We want to knock these guys out of the playoffs. We have a good rivalry with this team and we're not going to fold up our tents and pack it up, we re going to play hard all the way through.
anyone happened
We're fine. I don't think anyone is discouraged by what happened here tonight.
goal happened shot
I fanned on the shot off the rebound, but I just happened to get enough on it to get it over the goal line.
chance feels period third
Going into the third period in years past, there was no chance (for opponents). It just feels a little different. We've addressed some things here. We're working at it.
aware best creates guys league room
He's been the best defensemen in the league for 10 years. He just always makes the right play. When he's out there, guys like me have to be more aware of him when he has the puck, so that creates more room for the other guys.
chance opportunity playing rest thankful
I actually thought to myself, 10 years ago, when I was in this league, there was probably no chance of me playing the rest of that period, at least. I was thankful I got the opportunity to get back out there.
numbers percent
He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.
understand
We all understand that it's something that could happen. I don't think anyone's untouchable in our room.
coaching contracts dressing games guys last management obviously played playing remember room staff sure talked
We talked in our dressing room about the last 10 games of the year, making sure that we played the right way. Obviously the coaching staff and management are going to remember the last 10 games before they're going to remember the first 10 games, so we have a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride, contracts and different things.