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
good player shot smart
He's got good speed, he's got a good shot and he's a smart player on the ice.
bad confidence decisions rushed rushing
We made some bad decisions. When you don't win, you're tense. You probably don't think the same way. You're rushing things because the confidence is not there. We rushed some decisions. That was a big part.
against bad cost decisions good lost strength
We made some bad decisions and it cost us the game. We lost momentum. Even strength we were pretty good against this team.
expected played solid
He was solid defensively, and he played the way I expected him to.
playing
He's playing well. He's hungry. He battled hard.
chase chip creates
He creates a lot of turnovers the way he can chase the puck-carrier. But he's got to chip in once in a while.
caught huge kids mistake running
He doesn't go after people, running around. Sometimes a huge mistake with young kids is they try to make the big hit, but they get caught out of position.
good hope
We want him to be back. I hope he has some good performances.
execute plan playing second supposed team tough
We started playing in the second period. We started to execute our plan in the second period. When we're doing what we're supposed to do, we're a tough team to play against.
bad certain coaching players ready responsibility staff tonight
There are certain things a coaching staff can do. But it's up to the players to be prepared. It's part of their responsibility to come and be ready to play and ready to work. Tonight was a bad performance.
bit net puck
We want to put the puck on net a little bit more. There were times we did it, there were times we could have done it more.
bad cause cost penalties took
The penalties cost the game. Usually the bad penalties cause goals, and we took some bad ones.
bad chance close feet guys harder mentality personnel scoring team win work
Most of the penalties, they were not even scoring chances. Sometimes they were close to 200 feet away from our net. Those are bad penalties. We're going to have to be smarter. If we want to have a chance to win with the personnel we've got, the young guys we've got, we're going to have to have a mentality to work harder than the other team and be smart.
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.