Kevin Constantine
Kevin Constantine
Kevin Lars Constantineis an American ice hockey coach who currently serves as the head coach of the Everett Silvertips of the Western Hockey League. Constantine has coached hockey teams in the NHL, IHL, and numerous major junior hockey leagues. He was also the former head coach of HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss National League A...
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It's bothersome. We've given up way too many two-on-ones and breakaways over the last 10 days, and we've discussed it as a team.
bit chances game good hockey human nature played pulled sit
It's human nature to sit a little bit on a lead, but the game was very evenly played throughout. They had chances, we had chances and it was just a good hockey game and they pulled it out in a shootout.
bubble competing decisions difficult easy eight good guys rather spots
It's easy to know the guys who are on the team, but we have that bubble of eight to 10 spots that we need to make decisions on. All the guys that are competing for those spots did a good job. We'd rather have that. It's going to make for difficult decisions eventually, but it's good to see that the guys competing for those spots can play.
beginning hard penalty plays power
It's just hard to know what's going to happen, but in the beginning there could be a lot more power plays and penalty kills.
clicking game power seems
It seems that if our power play is clicking and our goaltending is in order, we've been winning. Of course, there's more to the game than those two things, but they are two big factors.
feet high obviously somebody stick
It wasn't even close. It was obviously a high stick and somebody out there has to see it. It wasn't just high, it was two feet high.
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We're looking to try and put the first half behind us. There were highs and lows and a little bit of a roller coaster ride early on. We want to take lessons from that experience and set goals for the future. But really we try to focus on - not to be cliche - a shift-to-shift, period-to-period, game-top-game basis and not worry too much about what's happened or what's in front of us. I think the future will take care of itself if we just work hard every day.
gave goal god good playing seconds sharp talked thank woke
We're real happy. We talked about how good they are and how sharp we'd have to be, then we gave them a goal 15 seconds into the game. Thank God that kind of woke us up, and then we started playing pretty hard.
fact goals hopefully hurt mean point sink
The fact that those kind of goals haven't really hurt us hasn't made the point sink in yet. When we give one up and lose, hopefully it will mean more to our guys.
We'll look for the same thing we always look for,
effort found good last net number power puck scoring
You have those nights, but we haven't done anything different on the power play in the last two games. We've had the same number of scoring chances. The puck has just found its way to the back of the net lately. The good thing is the effort has been pretty consistent.
division feeling granted looking start taking title
We're not taking anything for granted at this point. Our feeling is when and if there is a division title in hand, then we can start looking ahead.
plan specific stop talked team
We didn't have a specific plan to stop him. We just talked about how as a team they can really score.
coached deserves five last top wishes
Over the last five years, every goalie Shane has coached has been in the top of his league, ... Shane deserves this opportunity, and the Silvertips organization wishes him the best.