Dave Tippett
Dave Tippett
David G. "Dave" Tippettis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League. He is the sixth head coach of the Coyotes and the 21st coach in the Phoenix Coyotes/Winnipeg Jets franchise...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 August 1961
CityMoosomin, Canada
desperate nine power team
You put a desperate team on the power play nine times in the first two periods, and you are going to get what you earn. The referees were a non-factor tonight. It was all us.
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This organization came in and formed its own identity. Time goes on. People identify with this team more than hanging on to the North Stars' past.
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There were a lot of guys that we put into roles where we knew they had to jump in and do a good job. They've excelled in all of them.
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There were poor decisions on our part. You can't give away goals like that. Those are frustrating ones for a coach.
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This is the worst our defense has played all season, hands down. Giving up six goals a night just isn't going to cut it. We just kept on getting beaten and making mistakes, then the penalties we took ended up in our net.
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Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.
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This is the first time really that all of the entities have had a say in it. It's a partnership within the game, and ultimately we can say that at the end of the day, we're doing what's best for the game.
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This is the end of a real tough spot in our schedule. We managed to pluck a lot of points from this part of the schedule.
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They should think about this and how it feels. Games like this should leave a sour taste.
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They're the top team in the Western Conference. They're the measuring stick. This shows how much we have to grow as a team.
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I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
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I thought our team played a very good team defensive game. Hatcher had a great year and we played very well in front of Marty, but you can't get numbers like that without having an unbelievable performance from your goaltender. Marty deserves a lot of credit for that. He's the guy who a lot of time dictates a lot of the equation as the last line of defense.
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I think we've gotten some timely goals, and the pucks have gone in for us. I don't know, I think we've played better games against other teams and not scored as many. I think it's a fluke thing that we've been able to capitalize on as many chances as we have.
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I think we've gotten some timely goals and pucks have gone in for us. We've capitalized on our chances.