Tom Renney
Tom Renney
Thomas "Tom" Renneyis the president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada. He was previously an ice hockey Associate Coach with the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and also served as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, and Edmonton Oilers...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 March 1955
game talked
We talked about it as being a playoff-like game for us.
contingent respect
We just thought we'd show even more respect for our contingent that what we have. It's an international game.
found intense win
We weren't intense enough. There was no real flow. We found a way to win and it wasn't pretty.
kept offensive opposed team trying
We were reactive, as opposed to proactive. We were always trying to respond. In the offensive zone, I thought we were the better team than they were. But off the attack, they were outstanding. They kept getting odd-man rushes.
awful draw form game learn looking manage
We have to draw some conclusions form this game and how to manage the puck. You can learn an awful lot by looking at a loss. This happens.
balance felt last minutes stage
We felt the last 20 minutes could set the stage for the balance of the series.
good hung
We hung in with them. That's not good enough. We don't want to 'hang in' with anybody. We want to win.
assess both careful chance putting sure
We're going to be really very, very careful here and make sure that we give him a chance to assess where he is, both psychologically and physically, before we even contemplate putting him back in.
circle clearly club commit explain guys hockey ourselves past sure talking time win
It was time to circle the wagons and clearly explain to the guys that we need to be better and we've got to commit ourselves to what we have been about in the past if we want to do anything with the future. And I'm talking about (tomorrow). We want to make sure we win that game, and to do it, we have to be a much better hockey club than we were tonight.
check felt game leaves mentally needed organized picking plan sort sure
They all felt that they've been well prepared, well organized and that the game plan was appropriate and that they needed to check in mentally and emotionally to go and execute. I'm not sure where that leaves you at the end of the day as a coach. You're still sort of picking straws.
anybody beyond check develop playing plays rangers team trying win
And we want to win in a way that suggests to anybody that plays this team beyond this year, that you'd better check in and know how the Rangers are playing because that's what you're going to have to live up to. That's what we're trying to develop here.
hoped planned start tough
Pretty deflating. It was a tough start obviously, not what we had hoped and planned for.
dictate good habits ice manage minutes playing start
Even if we were playing Ottawa, we need a good start. We need good starts. We need to get back to good habits about how we start our games. How we manage the puck, how we manage the ice those first six, eight, 10 minutes is important. And we have to dictate the terms.
certainly emotion emotions game type valuable
Every game to us is very valuable but this does conjure up the type of emotion that is playoff-type hockey, or certainly consequential hockey. We want to play that as much as possible, because it makes us better.