John Muckler
John Muckler
John Muckleris a professional hockey coach and executive, most recently serving as the general manager of the Ottawa Senators of the NHL. Muckler has over 50 years of professional hockey experience as a part owner, general manager, director of player personnel, director of hockey operations, head coach, assistant coach and player. He has been a part of five Stanley Cup championships in various roles...
everybody mode
Everybody is in a mode right now where they want to look at what they've got,
both fit great perfect
It was the perfect fit. It was the perfect fit for us, it was the perfect fit for them. And we both made a great deal.
hockey hot irons talking
Right now, we don't have any hot irons in the fire. Have we been talking to teams? Yes. Do we want to make a move? Only if it betters our hockey club. And we don't want to do it by subtraction, only addition.
excited given people
People should be excited because we've given them something to be excited about,
line looking second somebody
We were looking for somebody who could play on our second line and we feel he can do that for us.
chance exhibition good guy performs
We think (Eaves) is a guy who has a good shot, ... He's going to get a chance and we'll see how he performs through the exhibition games.
contract year
We're just going to let them play right now, ... They're under contract for this year and that's something we'll look at.
experience olympic
I feel the Olympic experience is very important for the NHL, but I don't think it's all positive.
playing rid stuff
You had to get rid of the other stuff before he started playing well.
club goalkeeper hidden hurry particular playing points
We have a club here that has 105 points and we have a goalkeeper in Emery who is playing very well at this particular time. It doesn't make any sense to hurry Dom back. We do not have any hidden agenda.
cent per plan since
We've had a plan right since Dom got injured. The plan is to have Dom 100 per cent and when he's 100 per cent he will come back and he will play in the playoffs.
fail felt good hockey last looked player reason reasons runs season stanley time tried trying
We let a good hockey player go to Atlanta, ... But I just felt it was time for change. We had two runs at the Stanley Cup, one was partially successful, last season we failed. There's a reason when you fail and those reasons have to be looked and tried to be rectified and this is what we're trying to do.
change coming hockey marty
That's one thing we do have going for us to change things around, is Marty coming back. That does make us a better hockey club.
five hockey injure intended loss marty severe sorry sure
It's a severe suspension, five games. Marty is going to be a big loss to our hockey club, ... but having said that, there's no place in hockey for kicking. I'm very sure that Marty is very sorry it happened. I don't think he intended to injure anybody.