Barry Trotz
Barry Trotz
Barry Trotzis the head coach of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals and the former head coach of the NHL's Nashville Predators. He was previously the coach of the American Hockey League's Baltimore Skipjacks and Portland Pirates, with whom he won an AHL championship in 1994. That same year, he won the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award, which is awarded to the outstanding coach in the AHL as voted upon by the AHL Broadcasters and Writers. On February 20, 2013...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 July 1962
CityWinnipeg, Canada
blues changed deeper last maybe power
I think it was a combination of things. The Blues were deeper than we were and maybe a little tougher, and their power play was unbelievable. But in the last 18 months, the climate's changed a little bit.
effect element guess human might near surprised whether
I guess I thought that there might be more human element allowed. You know, where it (the penalty) occurred, whether it was near the puck, whether it had any effect on the play. But no, they're doing it the same way. That surprised me a little.
areas assets good
We put him in areas where his assets would shine, and he did a really good job.
game parts together took
We executed really well and took parts of their game away and established parts of our game tonight. You need a lot of different parts working together if you want to be successful.
account bank dig dug early games hole hopefully mentally middle ourselves saw stretch tough
We dug ourselves such a big hole early on. I always say that mentally and physically, you have a bank account as a team, and we had to go to the bank account real early. At the end of the season, we overdrew in some areas. When you dig yourself in a hole, it's tough to get out of. Hopefully what you saw in the 55 to 57 games in the middle stretch is more of what you'll see from the Predators. We're going to have to be more resilient.
fights seven zero
We had zero fights in our first seven games. We made up for that tonight.
almost heart lost
We had it and lost it and had it. I almost had a heart attack.
against belief detroit extremely fourth good remember second team third
It's good for our team to be able to come into Detroit and play like that against an extremely good team. I can remember the first and second - and even the third and fourth - years of this franchise, we really had no belief that we could come in here and win.
corner cup hopefully next playoffs sort stanley step threat trying turn validated
It sort of validated what we've been trying to do for a long time. And hopefully it allows us to turn the corner and take the next step. That next step being making the playoffs consistently and being a threat for the Stanley Cup every year.
bit came easy foot game gas hard human human-nature nature start
Things came to us real easy in the first period. It is a little bit of human nature to let your foot off the gas a bit after a start like that. When a game is so easy at the start it is a hard game to play.
ourselves relying satisfying
Not relying on someone else to do it is the most satisfying part I think. We just got it done ourselves tonight.
final learned penalties period periods played playing second skate start third took
I learned a lot about our character. We didn't back off. We didn't get off to the start we wanted. In the first period ... we took some undisciplined penalties and we didn't skate. But in the second and third periods we did skate and we played the way we have been playing and it showed in the final result.
control good taken threw
It was a good call. Scott Hartnell threw his stick. It's taken out of his own hands, he's out of control of it.
bit good heads hung job next three type
It was a bang-bang type of thing. We did a good job when we went down 2-0 with Walker's goal. We hung our heads a little bit when they scored their next three goals.