Adrian Aucoin
Adrian Aucoin
Adrian Mark Aucoinis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He most recently played for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. Aucoin was born in Ottawa, Ontario, but grew up in Gloucester, Ontario...
aspects few game grow net puck sticking understand unless win
There are a few aspects of the game where we've really got to grow up and it showed tonight, like the sticking penalties. We have to understand we're not going to win unless we all play together, unless we all take shorter shifts, unless we put the puck on the net and unless we play as a five-man unit.
couple games scholars-and-scholarship
Some of our defencemen here in the first couple of games have been just outstanding,
confidence great knowing seem
Just knowing you have Khabibulan, that confidence in the great goaltending, you seem to just play better.
agents available bit depends easier ended free guys handful hit lucky situation
I think there's a handful of guys that ended up being lucky in that way, ... Some guys who were free agents actually had to take a little bit of a hit but it just all depends on who's available and at what time. There was only a handful of defencemen in my situation so it made things a little easier for me, I guess.
leader marty
Marty will be great. He's been a leader the whole time. It's not that big of an issue.
boat hoping sooner waiting
I was in the same boat as everyone else. Just waiting and hoping that it was going to get done sooner than later,
changed early good hard helped intense
He helped changed my attitude. He was so intense and so hard on himself. Early on in my career, that wasn't one of my qualities. I think that's why we were such a good mix.
confidence fragile
We're real fragile now. We're working hard. We've just got to get our confidence up.
risky scholars-and-scholarship score seem team
We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.
bad breaking hopefully scar stay tissue
Hopefully it's not as bad and it's just some scar tissue breaking up and it will stay loose.
add adjust best both calls change few game hopefully icing line played players playing problems red remember rules scoring taking wonder works
I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to scoring and make the game faster, ... As a defenseman, I look at scoring negatively, but it works both ways. I wonder about the expectations though. I played in Sweden, without a red line, and I don't think the game was faster. On the other hand, I wasn't playing with the best players in the world, as in the NHL. We'll adjust to the new icing rules and in a few years we won't remember what it was like before. There's always calls for new rules, but I just hope the game doesn't change too drastically.
chicago favorite liked team
I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicago has always been one of my favorite cities.
crossed doubt everybody giving gotta man normally
If there is any doubt, normally you go upstairs. He's not giving us any leeway. That's accountability on his part. You gotta be a man about it. Clearly, everybody thought it crossed the line.
hit obviously
We obviously didn't hit it off all that well,