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
This is the worst game we've played in a long time. But was it the worst game we played or the best game they played? They did some things that forced us out of our comfort zone, for sure.
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 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 a warning sign. We have to make some adjustments, and we have to play harder in those situations.
They provide us with the Olympic break and we have to take advantage of it. Our expectation will be for our players to come back fresh and ready.
The transition for him hasn't been smooth. He's one of those kids who's trying to find his way right now.
Is it the end of the world? No, they're up 2-1 in the series. The bottom line is we have to prepare ourselves for more of a team effort than we got from our group.
Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.
Our execution level was nowhere near where it needed to be,
After the first 10 minutes, we got through a nervous time and we started to do more of things we're able to do as a group. Are you happy that your group competed and got their feet wet. Yeah, you're happy in that sense, but you're not happy with the outcome because we lost the hockey game.
The officials have set the standard. We cannot be in the penalty box as much as we were (in Game 2).
Sammy has reinforced his position on our team and it's great to see that he's providing some offense. Does he want to be a five-goal scorer? Or a 10-goal scorer? Or a 15- to 20-goal scorer? He's proving he wants to be the latter.