Steve Stirling
Steve Stirling
Steve Stirlingis an assistant coach of the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League. He is the former head coach of the American Hockey League's Norfolk Admirals, the Springfield Falcons, and the National Hockey League's New York Islanders. Most recently, he has been working as head coach for the Iserlohn Roosters in Germany...
carry load miss playing ricky until
He was playing pretty well and was going to carry the load until Ricky got back. And he's been one of the leaders, has been from day one this year, on and off the ice. We'll miss that.
good moving
He was moving his extremities, so that's a good sign.
coming early good report
He didn't look good coming off but the early report is that it wasn't too bad.
pick player smart
He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).
coming took
We took lazy, dumb, not hardworking penalties. We were never the same after it was 3-2 because they were coming like gangbusters.
bought emphasize players playing precedent sets top younger
I'm very impressed. I can't emphasize enough that the top players bought into the system. Obviously, they're playing hard, obviously, they're playing well. And that sets the precedent for the younger kids.
best definitely execution fresh legs power simply
Not our best effort. We had enough fresh legs in there that conditioning was definitely not a problem. The execution simply wasn't very good, especially on the power play.
game huge together
He's technically sound, and I think that is a huge factor. There's not going to be a lot of breakdowns to his game technically. Plus, he's a real competitor. Put the two together and it's pretty special.
few last plain played
I didn't think he's played very well the last few games, plain and simple.
played
For the first 50 minutes, I thought we played pretty well.
afford ice penalty took
He took a penalty and I couldn't afford to put him on the ice again, and have him take another one.
job lose mike
If you win, you keep your job. If you don't win, you could lose it or you do lose it. I didn't make the rules, Mike didn't make the rules.
Alexei is our leader, on and off the ice. This just makes it official.
against behind early expect fall teams
You can't fall behind too many teams 3-0 that early and expect to come back. To do it against Ottawa?