Mike Johnston
Mike Johnston
Mike Johnstonis the head coach and general manager of the Portland Winterhawks hockey team of the Western Hockey League. He previously coached the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL from 2014-15. He was relieved of his duties on December 12, 2015. He was replaced by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PenguinsHead Coach Mike Sullivan. Johnston performed duties as the coach and general manager of the Winterhawks previously from 2008 to 2014, before taking over as coach of the Penguins for the 2014-15 NHL season. Before...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 February 1957
CityDartmouth, Canada
Phil is incapable of error. If he says six more weeks of winter, you can take it to the bank.
We have lived there and so we have gone through some hurricanes before, and living there and working for Marriott, one of the things you do is move into the city, you move into the hotel because they can withstand the winds, etcetera,
We are looking at every opportunity to accelerate our multiyear action plan. Our entire team is engaged in making sure that we have taken the right action, we're executing them quickly and efficiently and without impacting our customer needs or our commitment to quality.
I'm excited. We've got some key positions we really need to replace. I think we've got a good nucleus of kids coming back and the question every year is it's going to come down to line play.
If our viewers were worried about one specific thing, ... it was where 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel of Fortune' were going to be.
It was a really well-played game. They were much improved from the first time we played this year. Both teams played flawless defense.
They're dedicated to making this work, and they're sacrificing their time and money.
It's nice to have (Perez) because he's tough up in between the tackles, ... and you have to honor (Hicks) because of his speed. And then (Craig) Smith can come in with nice quickness with the counters between the tackles. Sometimes teams will forget about him.
They did a nice job getting it ready. We had to replant some seed and they've done a nice job of watering it every day and it looks pretty good. It's the best it's looked in a long time.
It was just too many errors. I told the kids at halftime that we made three mistakes, and that's what put us in a hole. Maine-Endwell is a well-coached, disciplined team. We knew this would be a test. We've just got to keep getting better.
As we move closer to completing this transaction, we are progressing with plans for significant additional restructuring actions over the next several years to achieve our goal of being a winning automotive supplier.
As repetitive as it can be, it's different every year.
It's a huge cost. We lose all our inventory. We can make up a lot of those spots, but it involves a lot of phone calls with clients. There's also a lot of overtime and a lot of other expenses people really don't think about.
They played really hard tonight, Ithaca did. I thought they played really good basketball.