Mathieu Schneider
Mathieu Schneider
Mathieu David Schneideris an American former professional ice hockey player. Considered an offensive defenseman, Schneider played 1289 games in the National Hockey League with ten different teams, scoring 233 goals and totalling 743 points. He won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Montreal Canadiens...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth12 June 1969
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For me, I really felt it gave my body a nice rest. I feel great, and I'm extremely excited to start the year.
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It's another part of the schedule we have to deal with. The travel is terrible, so there's plenty of excuses built in for us, but we've gone out every night and worked hard and played the same way. I don't expect anything different in these games.
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It was exciting, it was great. We got up a couple of times and they scored one, and they got right back in it. They have great fans here, without a doubt. It was an exciting game.
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The bottom line is we didn't live up to our expectations.
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It would be better for everyone. The hockey would be better. Six games in eight days is extremely difficult. But everybody is in the same boat, so you can't use that as an excuse.
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That's what you're going to see when you turn on ESPN highlights every night, ... Or the OLN (Outdoor Life Network) highlights.
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That's great. These guys, they've been bugging me all year. It's all in good clean fun. Just as long as they are pulling for me in the Olympics.
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That's got to be the fastest goal scored by a new player on a new team in history. He stepped on the ice, walked right down the pipe and buried it. That was a great start.
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We've worked down low and kept the pressure on. That's been the key to our success lately.
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Let's face it, he's been a great player for a couple of years now in this league, but he's just taken his game to another level this year, where he's dominant. Right now, I think he's the best player in the world. I do. He's playing every night the same way, in traffic, five-on-five, killing penalties; he's doing everything.
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The only thing that was going to make this a successful season was winning the Stanley Cup. We didn't live up to our expectations.
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We do have another level, I think. I don't think we've showed it in a long time. We have to be a much better club from here on until the end of the year.
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I think it makes the game more interesting for the fans. For the players, absolutely the games become more intense each time. I'd like to see more of it.
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He's got everyone's attention. He gets you wide awake at the beginning of each practice and you've got to be sharp, got to be on your toes. He wants you to listen, he wants you to start each drill properly and make sure you know what you're doing. If you don't, get out of the way. Same thing with our meetings. It's, 'Stop what you're doing and pay attention.' He only has to say it a few times and everyone catches on.