Bob Gainey
Bob Gainey
Robert Michael "Bob" "Le Capitaine" Gaineyis the former executive vice president and general manager of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. He is currently a team consultant for the St. Louis Blues. He is also a former professional ice hockey player who played for the Canadiens from 1973 until 1989. After retiring from active play, he became a hockey coach and later an executive with the NHL Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars organization before returning to Montreal as general...
advantage backing great points sit strong time trying
It's come at a great time. We've been trying to take advantage of it by not backing off or being complacent. At this time of year, where we sit in our conference, those are really strong points for us.
timetable
It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.
happy playing skated wire
We're happy to be playing and we skated right down to the wire to get into the playoffs.
changes entering none period predict
We're entering a new period in the NHL, ... There could be changes that none of us can predict right now.
ahead far luxury overwhelm playoff positives race results
We don't have the luxury of being far enough ahead in the playoff race to be able to find positives when we don't win. The results overwhelm everything else.
game taking talking terms winning
We're not talking in terms of winning the series; we're talking about taking each game one at a time.
chances create hung offensive positive possession power reward scoring though time ultimate
Our power play hung in there. Even though we didn't get the ultimate reward of a goal, we had possession time in the offensive zone, we had shots, we had scoring chances. If they're working at it and doing the things you need to do to create chances but not scoring, it's still positive for your team.
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They had a power play five or six minutes in that really disrupted what we were trying to accomplish in the first period. In the second period, we were in the box five times I think for anything from clipping toe nails to anything else they were calling.
clear continues number second supposed wants
A little bit. He was supposed to be our second goalie, but he continues to make it clear that he wants to be the number one.
checking hope looking scores teams
You see the scores while checking the penalties, but you hope the other teams are looking at your score.
boiling drop grab guy needed pot reason warm water
There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly.
anxiety character nervous normal seen suffer
Something that we've seen in Cristobal in his normal character is that he isn't nervous or suffer from anxiety.
easy games goals hide
One-goal games are easy to hide behind. One-goal games are two goals away from winning, and that's a lot in the NHL.
couple early game goals hard mark outcome period shock team tonight
Once we got down a couple of goals I think we went into shock and at that point, really the game tonight was over. Our team stumbled hard early in the game, and really by the 5-minute mark of the first period the outcome of the game was established.