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
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This is just window dressing unless (the owners) have completely changed their philosophy, but I don't expect that. I just don't understand where they're coming from. We've told them time after time. It's just about one thing. And I think it's become quite personal for them to crush the union and become successful that way. How it affects the game doesn't really matter.
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I understand it's not the most popular opinion, but I like fighting. We're trying to sell our game, right? And we have something that no other sport has, and yet we seem almost embarrassed to have it. I don't get it.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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With Bob behind the bench, their guys are going to play extremely hard for him.
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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.
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Everybody has to step up. It doesn't matter whether it's your second, third or 15th year. It's the playoffs.
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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.
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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.
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We had to deal with a lot of other issues along with worrying about the game.
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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.
But we still have the idea that we can be better.
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I think Brian has plenty of gas left in the tank. You can't look at a guy's age but what he does on the ice. Chris Chelios is 43, but he's still a good player.