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.
appreciate others power puck shoot shot wish
We shot the puck a lot and I appreciate that and I wish others would shoot more. I think on the power play we could shoot the puck much more.
adjust definitive forcing movement penalty puck rather seem
We've had more movement. More definitive puck movement. More movement away from the puck. We seem to be a lot more pro-active in forcing the penalty killers to adjust to us rather than us adjust to the penalty killers.
almost awful ourselves second third
We almost showed them too much respect. We were awful in the first, better in the second and did everything we could in the third to try and get ourselves a win.
backs best excited honest ourselves ready sure thinking
Two different teams. I'm sure if everyone would be honest with you, they'd say they did their best to get ourselves excited and ready to play. But in the backs of their mind, they probably were thinking we should get this one tonight, all things being equal.
beat behind best game good passed people puck transition trap
We had a good transition game and passed the puck up quickly. We got the puck behind people and deep. The best way to beat the trap is not let it set up.
building buying case front
We had to do something different. It's not a case of buying a winner, it's building a winner. We're at the very front end of the process.
listen proactive
We don't want to be too proactive getting him back into the lineup. We have to listen to his body.
afford cannot game growing growth heads hockey hurry stunted tonight
We really do have to get our heads around the way the game is being called. We're growing up in a hurry here, and we cannot afford to play hockey like we did tonight or our growth will be stunted in a real hurry.
afford building devils everybody happy minutes neat next ourselves past
We really can't afford to look past the next 20 minutes of hockey. There are some neat things building between the Devils and ourselves and we're happy about that for everybody concerned.