George Gwozdecky
George Gwozdecky
George Gwozdecky is a Canadian ice hockey coach. He resigned as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey Leaguein June 2015. He has recently accepted a job as the head hockey coach at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, CO...
game perform positive win
(Tonight), Game 2 of the series, we need it. We need to win that game, and we need to perform better. And I'm very positive that we will.
high saw
We saw it as a high stick. There was no doubt.
knew perhaps respect team
We knew their team was better than their record, yet I think perhaps as a team we did not give them the respect they were due.
create difficult goals good hard team three trying
We wanted to create some good bounces for ourselves, and yet not only do they get the first goal, but two of the first three goals went off us. Those are difficult things to swallow, especially when you're trying as hard as this team has been.
celebrate sure sweeter
I told them, 'Thank you very much. But it sure would be a lot sweeter to celebrate after No. 405,'
class cream difficult expose four given good gotten great rises senior strong team tough weaknesses year
It's tough to find any weaknesses and probably even more difficult to expose those weaknesses if you find any. They are a team like every year in the WCHA, where the cream rises to the top. They've gotten strong play from all four of their classes, and they've got a good senior class that has given great leadership.
burden carry emotional game heavy seemed
It was a pretty heavy emotional burden to carry before the game. Everyone seemed to sense that this was a game we had to have.
blocking brought ice passes quick shots stripping
Stripping the puck, blocking shots and making quick passes up ice are more the things he brought to our program.
anybody catch difficult
It's going to be very difficult for anybody to catch them.
course score ship
They couldn't score and didn't play as well defensively. But once he got healthy, the ship was righted and they were right back on course again.
confidence effort emotion execution good last night princeton struggled took
We struggled this weekend. We didn't play with any effort or emotion last night and Princeton took advantage. Tonight, we had better effort but our confidence and execution wasn't good enough.
offensive period puck second timing
I thought we started well, but by the second period we were over-handling the puck and our offensive timing was nonexistent.
difficult goodbye realize season
It hurts. It's a very difficult thing to do, to say goodbye and really realize the season is done.
create hard performance quit result shock worked
We worked hard to create opportunities, then when we had opportunities, we quit working. The result is not a shock as much as the performance is a shock.