Craig Conroy
Craig Conroy
Craig Michael Conroyis an American former professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League. A sixth-round selection of the Montreal Canadiens at the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, Conroy played 1,009 NHL games for the Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames and Los Angeles Kings during a professional career that spanned from 1994 to 2011. Internationally, he twice played with the United States National Team – at the 2004 World...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth4 September 1971
guys next time
We need someone that's impartial, that hasn't been here a long time to get guys going to that next level.
played rest tie worry
It is a tie and we played for a win, but we do not have to worry about the rest of the tournament.
anybody dumped front good great pass puck saw stick sudden threw
I saw 'Fro.' The puck got dumped in, so I just said, 'Oh, I'm just going to go to the front of the net,' and all of a sudden he had it. I don't know if there was anybody around me or not. I just know he put a great pass on me. He just threw it on my stick and it was in the net. It was a pretty good feeling.
advance change greater level necessary performed point team
Our team has under performed to this point in the season, ... This change was necessary to advance our team to a greater level of success.
behind distance lost matter points talked team teams wins won
We talked as a team that his was a big game. If we won we'd be up by 10 points, if we lost we'd be up by six, so we wanted to put some distance between the teams behind us. It doesn't matter how pretty the wins are, we have to get as many points as we can.
love passionate people skilled
He's big and strong, skilled and yet passionate about the game. You want more and more people to know him, because when they get to know him, they're going to love him.
hockey synonymous usa
He's been a big part of USA hockey for a long time. It's surprising. He's kind of synonymous with USA hockey.
bench definitely played plays stood thinking three tonight tournament
He made some real big saves. There were two or three plays, I stood up on the bench thinking they were in and he made the saves. If your goalie plays well in a tournament like this, you're going to have a chance, and tonight he definitely played well.
believe chance cheering couple days fans ways
With the opportunities that we've had on 5-and-3 and different things, you know it's frustrating right now. I don't know. The fans still believe in us. They're still cheering out there, so we know this isn't over. We have a chance in a couple days to come back and play Russia. We have to be better, and we have to find ways to score.
We started great, everything was right on schedule.
couple goals nice played tonight understand
Usually I kind of understand him, but tonight I couldn't even understand what he was saying. I think it was Slovak. I don't know. He was pretty happy, though. It was nice to see him get a couple of goals because he played there so long.
good
We're doing a lot of good things. We just need some finish.
cylinders effort finding gives power score ways
We're finding ways to score goals. This effort gives us some confidence. Hopefully, we can get our power play going on all cylinders after tonight.
points power problem turning
Those are turning points in the game. We had two of them (5-on-3 power plays). Not to be able to capitalize, you know, that's been our problem up to this point.