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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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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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.
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Well, I don't think looking solely at our four games with them is really a good indicator. We'll have to play like we've played in some of the stretches since the Olympic break. If we get that kind of play then we're going to be a good competitive team.
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It was an important game and it could affect the outcome of the season.
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That power-play goal, the first goal we scored .... was a nice message for our team that we were in the game and skate with them.
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It's a small piece of the bigger production, and one game is not an indicator.
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It was a terrific game to be involved in and hopefully it was a great game for the fans. You could see that kind of determination in Florida right until the final buzzer.
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We're not talking in terms of winning the series; we're talking about taking each game one at a time.
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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.
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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.
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I think at some point, we're going to make a decision of who's going to start the first game of the playoffs. But let's get in the playoffs, we still don't have that nailed down. In the meantime, we're using all of our players to get us there.
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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 hadn't been close to the ice for a game in quite a while. It was a fun game to be a part of.