Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson
Former hockey coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 May 1955
CityWindsor, Canada
basically cynic goals grind joe might pass playing score third truth work
A cynic might say he's profiting from playing with Joe Thornton, and there's some truth to that, but he did score 28 goals without a pass from Joe Thornton two years ago. And he basically was playing on a grind line, a third line, doing a lot of the work himself.
couple handed plays points soft
A couple of soft plays and we handed these two points away, just not one but two. And it's a shame.
along drawing drawn four goals huge leader room setting share somebody winning
Somebody will say he only had four assists, but they were huge -- setting up winning goals, making big plays, drawing penalties. He could have drawn about 10 more penalties. And he's a leader in the room along with Patty, they share that responsibility.
series special teams
Special teams in this series will be big.
game guy guys ignore knock minutes penalty plays power three totally tough
I don't think that's a big part of the game right now. It's about power plays and penalty kills, it's not about fighting. And it's a little different if the tough guy can play. ... I'm not going to knock some of these other guys who can play only three minutes and if you ignore them they're totally useless.
hard
I don't think he realizes what he just did, how hard that is.
guys hard huge matters realized
I don't think he realized how hard that is. He's very comfortable, and this is when it matters most too. These are huge games, and to see the young guys come through like this is great.
applying gap january playoff position
I don't want us to think by the end of January we've got to be in a playoff position or else. We've just got to keep shortening the gap and keep applying the pressure.
basically fun ice looks missed played player sees wants works
He basically hasn't played in two years and it looks like he hasn't missed a beat. He wants the puck, sees the ice well, works hard. It's fun to see a player that young so detailed.
great shot
Great move, great shot and he made a great save.
percent somebody wait
You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.
penalties
You're not going to take many penalties when you have the puck.
excitement exciting generally guys happy pace struggle
You're always going to struggle because of the excitement of the first day, but I was generally happy with the pace of our practice. It's exciting to be working with all these guys again.
energy looked maintained ours third
It looked like we did not have much energy tonight. (Phoenix) maintained their energy while ours pretty much was sapped by the third period.