Bill Guerin
Bill Guerin
William Robert Guerinis an American former professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Guerin played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, winning two Stanley Cup championships with the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins. Internationally, Guerin represented the United States in the Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006, and participated in two Ice Hockey World Championships. Guerin was the first player of Hispanic descent to play in the NHL...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth9 November 1970
everybody matter step third whether
Everybody has to step up. It doesn't matter whether it's your second, third or 15th year. It's the playoffs.
believe choice clear focus gain hard positive stepping work
We didn't have much of a choice. We are not going to be in the clear for a while. Sometimes you just gain a lot by stepping back a little. We have to focus on the positive things. We all here believe in good, hard work ethic.
guess guys mixture plate start step veterans
I guess you're going to find that on any teams, that it's going to start with the veterans and other guys are going to follow. We had a lot of guys step up to the plate tonight. ... You had a mixture of young and old doing a lot of things.
definitely rude step
It's definitely a rude awakening. We're going to have to get better. We're going to have to get better every step of the way.
came crunch felt goes league proposal season since step time waited work
This is not a public-relations stunt. We've put a lot of work into this proposal and this isn't something we came up with overnight. We felt that we had to do something. We're getting down to crunch time and since the league isn't doing anything, we felt like we'd better do something before the whole season goes down the tubes. We've waited long enough for them to try to step up.
toward year
(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.
absolutely agree good guys talk together
There are absolutely guys who are going to want to get things off of their chest, and that's why we're doing this. We have more than 700 people, and we're not going to agree on everything, so it's good to get together and talk about everything that's happened.
gets gives score start system team
To score first is big. It gives your team confidence. Gets it out of the way. We can relax, get in your system and start to play.
behind bob extremely guys hard
With Bob behind the bench, their guys are going to play extremely hard for him.
ask consider feedback partners selling system team tremendous
What's been tremendous about the new system is the team really does consider us partners in this and they ask for our feedback on things, so that makes us feel more a part of selling the game.
great including laugh laughing lesson regular strange today turned win
We were laughing about it, sure, and we can laugh today because it turned out for us. But seriously, that was a great lesson for our team, including Marty. In a strange way, it was better to have that kind of win than just a regular win.
bad built came felt flat franchise playoff playoffs ready series winning
We felt we were really ready for a long playoff run. We came out flat in this series and we are very disappointed. This franchise is built on winning in the playoffs and this is just a bad way to end.
along deal issues worrying
We had to deal with a lot of other issues along with worrying about the game.
buy guys jump next older players ready younger
I don't feel that it's a phasing out, they just feel like they feel these younger players are ready to take the next step, ... You can't tell me that a lot of our older players are out of gas, I don't buy it. But you can't tell me that our younger guys aren't ready to jump in there, either, because they are.