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...
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.
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.
rough year
It was just one thing after another, not only for me but for the team. It has been a rough year on the organization as a whole.
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.
half interested liked living lots loved obviously pushed secret seemed talked teams willing
It was no secret that I loved living there, and I liked just about everything about the Islanders. But obviously I talked to enough teams to know there were lots out there willing to go out of their way to get me. And it seemed the Islanders weren't half as interested as the others, which was frustrating. That's what pushed me to leave.
became began difference few games happy ice minutes peter skating sure
A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.
hard results start tough work
It's tough when you work hard and the results aren't there. You start to second-guess yourself.
clear priorities
They made it pretty clear where their priorities were.
guys penalties
It was different. There were a lot of whistles, and some of the guys who got penalties didn't know they got them.
basically life living routine
It was really tough, not having the routine like we're so used to. Basically living a different life than we're used to.
confidence fragile
We're real fragile now. We're working hard. We've just got to get our confidence up.
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.
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.
hit obviously
We obviously didn't hit it off all that well,