George McPhee
George McPhee
George McPheeis a Canadian ice hockey executive. He currently holds the position of general manager for the Las Vegas NHL team. McPhee is the former general manager of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals; he also served as the team's alternate governor and Vice President and special assistant to the GM of the New York Islanders...
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Alexander has agreed to fulfill his commitment to the Capitals, and we believe he can play a key role in our future.
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We're pulling for him. We hope he comes along and is just fine.
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We didn't expect him to be this good this early. We were hoping he could play as much as the veterans, but he has carried this team on offense.
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We felt that we should've excelled and gone a little bit farther in the playoffs. But we think we are a playoff team and we hope to be better this year. There were certainly some positive things about last year. We missed out on the division by one point. We felt like we were having a good playoff series and got some bad breaks and it didn't go our way. But the objective is to go as far as you can, and we think we are capable of going farther.
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At this point, he is in violation of his contract. We are going to be as aggressive as we can to remedy this,
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We had talked to his agent about it,
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We have done everything we could to avoid this step, but we felt we had no choice but to now seek a legal remedy.
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We could use some more goals. We like the way the defense has played, and the goaltending has been good. We think we have some young players who can score for us. We'll see what the second half brings.
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Mike will be back, ... He had an excellent camp, and we anticipate that this will be a short-term move.
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I think it's premature to try to determine who he's going to play with. He's a real talented player with some bite to his game who will fit in real nicely with this team.
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Our forward group is in good shape and our goaltending is in good shape, but we have question marks on defense. We'll play some of our young players back there and see how they do. We have five or six young guys we are going to give opportunities to and we'll see who is able to grab those spots.
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Jeff is worthy of this for a lot of reasons, ... He has the maturity, the talent, the experience, the leadership. But he has a neat perspective of this club that not many people with this club, or any club would have about their team.
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Jeff has all of the ingredients of the type of player we are looking for, ... He brings elite speed, some valuable championship experience and is a powerful skater who goes to the net.
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Jeff brings speed, Stanley Cup-winning experience and leadership to our locker room. We look forward to having him on our hockey club.