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
We had a couple of big saves from Chris Mason in the third. We had bang-bang goals in the second period and Hartnell came up with the big goal at the end. It was a key goal for us. They sort of had us on our heels, they were coming hard, but we were able to get the big goal tonight when we needed it.
We have needed big goals in our last couple of games, and he has gotten them for us. He plays with a lot of energy. He is a feisty type of guy. You need all kinds of players to be successful as a team. He is part of a good mix.
I never thought of taking Tomas out of the game. He needed to work through this in terms of conditioning. Tomas didn't see three of the goals they scored because our defensemen were screening him. We created the traffic in front of Tomas.
Columbus scored a goal and we needed something to happen. Paul got the puck right back and scored. He stepped up and got it done.
We've danced with the devil a little bit in terms of chances, and it sort of came back and burnt us tonight.
To me, that's a little bit of a slap in the face. I think we're a pretty good hockey team. ... The only thing we need to do is prove it on the ice.
Those 48 shots were realistic shots. We drove through the middle as much as we could. We created outside lanes. We shot the puck a lot. If you throw the puck at the net you have a good chance of it going in.
We used all four lines. I thought if we would have went to overtime it would have really benefited us, but it never got there.
We frustrated them, and they took a lot of poor penalties. We knew their game plan. They wanted to bang, have a lot of energy and come out and prove a point. There wasn't much of a point at the end.
We scored early and we were very fortunate when they countered and tied the game up. We responded right away.
Vancouver lost two defensemen for probably a week to 10 days in that tournament, which doesn't bode well for them.
Better walking than lying down in a hospital bed any day.
Every game has been a one-goal game and a nail-biter, if you will, but we'll take it. They don't ask how, just how many.
Today, we were oil and water. We didn't mix very well. We had guys with a little bit of anger.