Michel Therrien
Michel Therrien
Michel Therrienis a Canadian ice hockey coach, who is currently the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. Prior to his current stint with Montreal, Therrien had previously coached the Canadiens for three seasons and then the Pittsburgh Penguins...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 November 1963
CityMontreal, Canada
against checks finishes physical
He's aggressive. He finishes his checks and it's going to be important for us to be physical against (the Rangers).
against best breaks calls few hard ice played team though win worked
Yeah, we played hard. We worked hard and played hard and I though we were the best team on the ice tonight, but we need breaks to win games. We didn't have any breaks -- all the breaks were against us. A few calls were against us, so it was one of those nights.
believe clear horrible tough
I believe that was a horrible call, but there's nothing we can do. I don't think it was a clear breakaway. I didn't believe that. Interpretation is always different. It was a tough night. The referees were tough on us.
emotional
Sidney Crosby is an emotional guy. You don't want to take that away. It's part of his game.
battle shift
One thing, we don't quit. Every shift we want to battle and play with a lot of pride.
anxious bounce doubt good mind players pride
I'm anxious to see how we're going to react. There's no doubt in my mind we're going to play a better game. I think the players have some pride and they want to bounce back and give them a good game.
best great ice played team
We were the best team on the ice (today), by far. We played a great game.
compact games nice period practice quality schedule short time work
We'll have some quality practice time. This year, the schedule is so compact with so many games in such a short period of time that will be nice to get to work on our system.
build finally followed good great plan
We had a great start. We followed the plan really well. We did a lot of good things and finally we can build on the positive.
followed great half lead league loose plan start taking team tough
We had a great start the first half of the game. We followed the plan really well. It's a tough league to have a four-goal lead because sometimes you loose your concentration, and the other team is taking a lot of chances.
against five top unit
We like our unit of five against top players.
concentration lose outside takes team tough
It's tough to have a four-goal lead, sometimes, because you lose your concentration and the other team takes a lot of chances. They got a lot of shots. We wanted to keep them on the outside as much as we could, and Marc-Andre was phenomenal.
create fourth guys ice playing quality three time top understand
For guys like him, it's tough. He's in and out of the lineup. We want him to be aggressive, we want him to create some offense. But at the same time, I understand that he's playing on the fourth line, so the quality of his ice time is not the same as guys on the top three lines.
career changing coach ethic five goals team time trailing work
It's probably the first time in my career that we're trailing by five goals and I coach my team not changing anything because the work ethic is there. Our goalie was not good.