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
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.
anyone complete itself lock regular season team
This team has got itself on the brink. We've got to lock in or we're out of here. We don't want anyone to look at our regular season as a complete illusion.
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.
allow figure hope spirit tactics teach
You can teach those tactics but I don't know if his spirit will allow him. Let's hope he can figure it out before something really unfortunate happens.
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.
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.
dice philosophy
We kind of rolled the dice on this philosophy.
beyond certainly consummate deserved far forward games guy hopefully injuries likely moving next retrospect role starts team
To his credit, he's certainly been the consummate team guy and likely in retrospect having even deserved more starts than he's gotten. His injuries have prevented that from happening. These are big games for us moving forward and he'll play a significant role in how far we go here in these next games and hopefully what we do beyond that.
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.
certainly expect himself needed offensive player secured spark stage unit
Did we expect him to be on our No. 1 power-play unit at this stage of the season? Maybe, but only as an interim thing or if we needed a spark or whatever. Certainly he's secured himself as an offensive player on our team.
change overtime
Disappointing change in overtime - that wasn't the players' fault.
composure lose
Composure is an important part of the game. If you lose it, you can lose the series.
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.