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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We have to recognize and appreciate the experience he's had with a very good team in Detroit over a long period of time, playing with great players in some of the best playoff competition, ... We have three young defencemen in Montreal (Mike Komisarek, Ron Hainsey and Andrei Markov) and his experience and knowledge will be an asset.
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We were hoping it was going to be taken care of at this arbitration and it would disappear. When it came out in the public domain, the decision to release the information that it was Jose Theodore was the best way to approach it.
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The best person to protect anyone is himself. That's the message he sent - don't mess with me because I'll protect myself.
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We were playing against a good team. We have respect for them. We have to play as well as we can and for as many minutes as we can. We took a lead and had to battle for it. It was a good playoff game.
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We saw the job was too big for one guy and (Huet) needed some help.
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The style he plays with was the prominent style in this game. We needed to go into the difficult areas to get the puck and send it toward the net.
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The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.
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Right now, we're in a playoff position and if we get some points in our final game, we're going to the playoffs. The other teams can't say that.
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Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.
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We want an exciting team, a quick team, a fast team, a puck-moving, skating, attacking team, and to do that you need to put players in place who have those skills.
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The swelling has to diminish before the physicians can do all the necessary tests.
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We have a large group of players who are coming to an age of maturity.
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We've got seven games before the break and five of them are at home so we need to go home and make some hay.
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Markov raised his game to the level I thought he would.