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
conversation sharing
We had a very professional conversation. It was not any kind of confrontation, it was just sharing thoughts.
attack fell needed rubber
We did not attack the way we needed to. It started to get away from us when we fell behind. We didn't put enough rubber at the net.
approach best bit chose compromise continued execute felt gave hard honest intense last madison objective opponents point rest send square stage sure tried
We really felt the last 20 minutes, and how we chose to approach that, could set the stage for the rest of the series. We wanted to make sure we continued to play hard and honest and not compromise ourselves. We gave our opponents something to think about going into Madison Square Garden. Our objective was to be every bit as intense as we had up to that point and execute the best we could. We tried to send a message.
acceptable help ice intention level performance time today understand worked
Our intention is that every time we go on the ice we have a purpose, and there is a level of performance that is acceptable and one that isn't. Sometimes we help them understand what acceptable is. Today was no problem. They worked hard.
advantage doubt good presented strong took
Overmatched? I doubt it. I just thought we had a strong game. We took advantage of some things that were presented to us and I thought we were as good as we've been defensively all year.
couple power puck work
Our power play got us a couple of big ones and our PK did what it had to do. Keep the puck to the outside. They work very, very hard.
extremely valuable
Right now that could be an extremely valuable point. Tonight, it is.
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.
direction generally played solid step towards
I thought we played a solid game. I thought we were, generally speaking, pretty complete. I'm going to look at this as a step in the right direction towards the playoffs.
goals good stop
I thought they scored some pretty good goals . If you can't see it, you can't stop it.
huge obligation
I think we may be a little apprehensive. They just feel this huge obligation to be something special.
certainly coming credit europe exactly experience fellow good happening people pond realize saw side sort starting
I think that what's happening now is that this side of the pond is starting to realize exactly how good this young fellow is. Certainly in Europe and those of us who have had experience over there sort of saw this coming ? not to this degree, I'm not going to take credit for that. But certainly people are starting to realize this guy's for real.