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
heard suck
When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.
heard quit referee suck
When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.
beginning bit game three
We're beginning to see a bit of personality in the other three lines. They can contribute, game in and game out.
believing calming capable fits matter progress proud settling sort system within work
We're a work in progress and we're scrambling and scratching and clawing to kind of be what we were so proud to be earlier. And we're close. We're getting there sort of in fits and starts. But it's a matter of settling down, calming down and believing in everything that we're capable of doing within our system and we'll be fine.
chance emotional fact four gives hurt olympic three tough type weeks
Three to four weeks gives us a chance at four. It's an emotional roller-coaster for him. He's never had this type of injury, so first, the fact that he's hurt and that it interrupts his Olympic experience, it's pretty tough for him.
believe games
We'll take it, you'd better believe it. We haven't had too many games that bark. This one was a big dog.
choose goal heavy ourselves playing surprised teams within
What I'm surprised at is that we choose to let ourselves get down a goal or two before we ignite ourselves in the way we need to play. And that's a heavy consequence when you're playing teams that really know how to play within their structure. I'll be surprised if it continues.
giving serves
I thought we would probably do Henrik well by giving him a breather before he went over to Europe, so it serves two purposes.
concerned delays overly
It interrupts things . . . delays things a little bit, but I don't think we need to be overly concerned by that.
hurt point practice ready
It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifically for Pittsburgh.
changes game
We're coming. I think this game changes things.
absolutely came good guy nowhere time
Time will tell, but he's a good player. It's not like this guy came out of absolutely nowhere for us.
beat cup found good hockey hung plan stanley stuck
To beat a very good hockey team, the Stanley Cup champions, was important. And we did it because we hung in there and we stuck to our plan and, in the end, we found a way to win.
nights win
We'll have better nights than we had. We'll win again.