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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We talked about how good they were and then gave them a goal in the first 15 seconds of the game. It's very hard to keep the offense going when there's a long break and we were very fortunate that we caught them in a rusty mode.
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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.
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I think it's human nature that when you score three goals as fast as we did, you have a tendency to think how good you are and how easy it is. In hockey, goals can come in bunches, and that's what happened.
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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.
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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.
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This is a mystery year for us. It's pretty rare in this league when the core of your team is 17, and that's what we have. We have the potential to have a lot more skill and score a lot more goals this season.
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I'd give Leland about a C grade for the game. I don't think he gave up a lot of bad goals where you would give him a D or an F, but he didn't make the big saves when he had to, either.
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We had a fear, because of four suspensions in eight games, it was going to get even more out of hand. Something's been going on.
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This team has learned over the last three years that things can swing and move quickly. The fact that we lost seven in a row earlier in the season shouldn't haunt us, but it does provide a really sharp, bold reminder that things can turn very quickly.
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This year it's either been Mueller healthy or Hamill healthy, and they are the guys who quarterback our power play. We really haven't had that many times when they've both been healthy. They are both very capable, so whoever is fresh is going to be the guy to go.
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Vancouver is really good, and I was glad we were playing them because you have to elevate your game just to compete with them. This game was good for us right now.
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Leland was by far our best player. He was awfully good, especially the more the game wore on, the better he got.
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I was hoping to get wins early because I knew it would get harder later. Then we lost the first two. I think the team did a pretty good job. Our biggest fear was the health of our team, and we got banged up. That's fairly typical when you play that many games in that many days.
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It doesn't matter if it's here, Pluto or Jupiter. It's just nice to get a win, especially after such an evenly-played game.