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
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That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.
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I think our team played great -- a great team game. We're back to where we were at the beginning of the season. We're not turning the puck over like we had been, and we're doing the little things you need to do to win games. We were rewarded for our hard work.
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It's tough. We feel like we're working hard and winning battles, but we aren't able to find the back of the net. We have to find something deep inside and start scoring goals.
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When a team is struggling and having a hard time winning you can't go down early. But mentally we have to be stronger. We have to battle back, find a way to score one and get ourselves back in it.
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A punch like that goes around the league in a hurry, ... But we have talked at length to him in the past about being a physical factor without just squaring off against the other team's tough guy and getting into a situation where teams are reacting to what he's doing on the ice in terms of who he's hitting and how hard he's hitting, and that's the role we've seen so far.
bottom line mistakes
We just let them come back. The bottom line is we made some mistakes and they capitalized.
help ourselves
We didn't help ourselves with all the penalties.
definitely
There's no need to panic. But we definitely have to get some more wins.
We had a lot of opportunities, but we have to find some finish.
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That weighs on people's mind, and I think Dave thought about it and said, 'I'm going to make a change right now and move forward.
problem score
That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.
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I was pretty surprised. I didn't go to the orientation camp and I haven't done a lot of stuff with USA Hockey. ... They're just going with anybody they feel can help them.
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Maybe that first period scared them a little -- it scared us, too,
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.