Mike Babcock
Mike Babcock
Michael "Mike" Babcock, Jr.is a Canadian professional ice hockey head coach, currently serving as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. He previously spent 10 seasons as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2008 and helped to the Stanley Cup Playoffs every year during his tenure. He holds the record as winningest coach in Red Wings history, surpassing that of Jack Adams. He has also served...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth29 April 1963
team people important
When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important.
hurt hinder
Failure will hurt but not hinder us.
growing-up team school
You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'
less liked neutral played plays zone
I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.
ask believe guys hearts seen teams
The idea you've seen this movie before, I don't know anything about it. This team's much different than the teams in the past. If you ask my guys they believe in their hearts they're going to have success.
hung kept last lost night proud
You've got to give them credit. They hung in there. They kept coming. They're in their building. They lost last night and they're proud guys.
ducks hunting league
The league won't be hunting Ducks in camouflage anymore.
bag both puck situations team time
You can try to bag the puck out of the zone, but we wouldn't be the team we are if we did. Those were both situations where we had time to make plays.
ask discussion fly obviously safe
I'm very concerned. I can only ask so many times. I don't fly the plane. But I am really concerned. There's been lot of discussion about what's going on, are we safe -- obviously that's the first priority.
guys
These guys are professional. They know how to win, even when they don't have it.
guys
These guys are professional. They know how to win, even when they don't have it.
gets
But now he's in shape, he gets up and down the ice, and he's a player.
We had ample opportunities to score, but we didn't have the stick-to-it-ness.
continue goes series
We feel we're getting better as this series goes on. And we think we'll continue to get better.