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
beginning great hard played puck rewarded team turning win
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.
against both games played seven teams
Both teams played hard, ... Seven more games against them ? it's going to be a battle.
battle hard mentally ourselves score struggling team time winning
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.
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.
against factor goes guy hard hitting ice league length past physical punch reacting role seen situation talked teams terms tough
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.
beginning dangerous nervous played team
I think we played nervous at the beginning and we were tense. We know they're a team that's struggling, but that's a dangerous kind of team.
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.
bad building good huge roll starting stretch teams top trying turn ways
It was huge for this team. We had a bad stretch and now we're trying to turn this thing around. We just had to find ways to win. We're down two (goals) to one of the top teams in their building and we battled back. We're starting to roll again. It's a good feeling.
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.
bother bottom chances difference forward hard line moving score work
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.
change dave move weighs
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.