Randy Carlyle
Randy Carlyle
Randolph Robert Carlyleis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the head coach of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks and formerly the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was raised in Azilda, just northwest of Sudbury, Ontario. He won the Stanley Cup in 2007 with the Ducks during his first stint with the team. As a player, Carlyle dressed for over 1000 games between the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets, winning...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 April 1956
CityGreater Sudbury, Canada
It's like, I guess, the Detroit Red Wings get those calls in their building.
It's so close. The difference can be one mistake. If you make a mistake, you're pulling the puck out of your net.
It's always difficult to travel that far. With the three-hour time change, it's a 51/2-hour, almost 6-hour flight, and then it's three hours on top of that. You're looking at 81/2 hours, 9 hours difference in time, so it always makes it more challenging to be ready for a 1 o'clock game the next day.
It's even stricter. It's been very evident, on any of the games that you've watched since we've come out of the (Olympic) break. The other night was a prime example of that. Some of the calls were stricter enforcement of the letter of the law that it was at the beginning.
It's a tool that has become more prevalent in the past 10 years; it's less stressful on the body.
It wasn't pretty. I'm sure both coaches are not extremely happy with the way both teams played.
It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.
It's amazing. We did a testing of our rookie camp, then there was a testing done of all the veterans,
It's hard to be critical of our group because things have gone so well. We've worked so hard and then we have a game like this where we weren't as sharp as we have been. I'm not going to criticize our team for this hockey game.
It's disturbing. Columbus played yesterday in L.A., and they had more life and jump than we did in the first, probably 25 minutes. We have to find a way to take responsibility for that.
It's a warning sign. We have to make some adjustments, and we have to play harder in those situations.
We've talked about it. You cannot, cannot - stress cannot - use your stick. It's experience. This is a new area of the game, the way it's being called.
We did not compete at our best level. I thought that they wanted it more than we did and they went out and played that way. The bottom line is we have to prepare ourselves for more of a team effort than we got from our group tonight.
We deserved a better fate, but we didn't get it. My message was that we worked extremely hard and did a lot of good things. We're not going to let this get us down.