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...
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Halak made a remarkable impression in his first season in North America. He has an excellent work ethic and could become an excellent goaltender in the years to come.
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He doesn't look like a player who wants to give up his position to anybody. You have to earn the confidence of your teammates and he has done that for a while.
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My story for the players has been getting away from eighth and focusing on seventh. We are not worried about the Bruins because they have other teams to jump ahead of before they get to us.
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The intensity in those Toronto games was very high and it took a lot out of us.
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I haven't really thought about it at this moment. We'll make a decision on our lineup and we'll let you know.
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I hadn't been close to the ice for a game in quite a while. It was a fun game to be a part of.
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I'm the one who's responsible and this gives time for Guy to get comfortable with the team and the players. It's more fair for myself to step in and take responsibility until the end of the season.
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They kept us off balance through most of the game, through three or four power plays. We're certainly not tight in our team play.
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If you look at their penalty killing and hours, if you look at the minutes that were spent in that situation, they created an advantage in play and an advantage on the scoreboard so it's pretty easy for us to find the place where we need to improve.
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I didn't see anyone looking and wondering if someone was going to show up out of the blue. It's part of their lives. Players are in and players are out all through the season. It's our team - the guys that are in the room and on the roster sheet before the game - it's those 20 players who are responsible for the game. It's not the guys who aren't there.
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If you want to build a scenario, I think it's a pretty good one.
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The information is that he was improving, that his vision was clearing up. Blood was dispersing, but there were still parts inside his eye that the doctors could not see and that still needed time.
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Andre, I'm just getting to know him but I think he has a lot to offer and he has a good vision of the ice, great ability with the puck and he gave us a taste of it tonight. We'd like to see more.
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The Flyers have a lot of injuries right now, that's for sure. But our team, if we move the puck well, can play with a lot of speed, whereas their team is big, but they're slower than us. So it's like we have opposite teams, but it makes for good games.