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
We did a lot of good things. I can't be disappointed with our effort, that's for sure.
I think he fit in with our hockey club. Tonight we weren't good enough.
Those are the type of wins that really make you feel good about yourself. We went out there and we earned it.
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.
We didn't have a very good start. You get down 2-0, it was one of those games that they were better than we were early, by far.
I thought we did a lot of good things. We're not down but we understand this is the type of game we have to play.
He was going along at a fairly good pace and making great strides. Then he suffered the concussion and really struggled after that.
He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.
He fit into the group. We weren't good enough.
Their game plan obviously was to go after some of our so-called skill players. The officials have to take control in a situation like this, and they did a very good job.
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.
The result is the biggest negative. Our effort was good, we had chances, but we just didn't bury the puck.
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.
Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.