Ken Holland
Ken Holland
Kenneth Mark Hollandis the current General Manager and executive Vice President of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Holland was drafted in the 12th round, 188th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1975 NHL Entry Draft. He played a total of four games in the NHL: one with Hartford, and three with Detroit. In 2009 Holland was listed at #2 on Sports Illustrated's Top GMs/Executives of the Decade...
counting guy lose losing
When you lose a guy like Pavel, ... you're losing a guy you're counting on for a lot of offense.
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We've probably lost about five key players from the teams we were successful with, but we still have a lot of our nucleus together. I think teams like Nashville and Columbus are going to be closer to us with the new CBA. But I still think we have the potential to compete for the conference title and if you're doing that, you've got a chance to reach the goals everyone around here has for this franchise.
limits near
We're near the cap. That limits the things you can do.
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We think we have some good young legs. I think it's going to be more of a younger team. We're trying to find some veteran leadership and hopefully we can find that at the conclusion of the first round.
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You have to bring something to the lineup,
anxious both couple days everybody extra gets gives opponent prepare preparing process sure teams time watching year
This time of year everybody gets anxious to know who your opponent is. Now we know who our opponent is, and we can go about the process of preparing for them. It gives both teams an extra couple of days to prepare for your opposition. We've been watching them. I'm sure they've been watching us live and on tape.
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We wanted to be one of the top three seeds. We knew Nashville was going to be a real good team, and after the first 45-50 games they were ahead of us, but our guys have really stuck to it.
both ongoing talks
We've had talks with both and it's an ongoing process.
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We like our nucleus, the core of young players we have. We'd like to build something here. We want to be in position to add in the future, when the ages of unrestricted free agency goes down.
counting obviously
Obviously it's a disappointing loss. We were really counting on him.
player quality trade
It's like getting a quality player at the trade deadline.
assistant bring core half relationship team type
Dave's relationship with half our team -- and it was the core half -- had really been cemented as the assistant coach. I thought it was important to bring in someone with a different type of personality.
assumption certainly operating
That's the assumption we're operating under. We're certainly going to look at all of our options, but we're under the assumption Pavel will not play with us this season.
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I've had some talks with Andreas and his agent. Andreas played very well for us. My feeling would be we would like to have him back next year. He's really solid, gives us size, he's a good penalty killer, and that was a tremendous blocked shot last night. He's been a pleasant surprise.