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
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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.
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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.
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We don't want to be too proactive getting him back into the lineup. We have to listen to his body.
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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.
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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.
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We believe he can help our power play. We believe we've helped our offensive attack and our transition game.
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It's a judgment day for our team. This season could be recognized one way or the other by how we choose to perform on Saturday. We want the outcome to obviously be in our favor. We have to play a good, strong, playoff hockey game and if we do that, we'll put ourselves in a position to win it anyway.
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For a guy that's a No. 1 goaltender in this league, he has made this as easy as it could be on a coach. That's a testimony to him. When he goes back in it won't be a token little thanks, 'Kevin, here you go.' It'll be because we need him, we want him, and we need a win.
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For a number of us, we've been in a bit of a flat-line.
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It's terrific. We secured a playoff spot, that's all it is. We have a lot more hockey to play in the regular season, never mind making the playoffs.
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It's terrific, it's great for this group of players and for the organization that rolled the dice with this philosophy. There's a sense of accomplishment that we've secured a spot.
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It's pretty tough to come back with jet lag. To protect all of us, especially the goaltender, my inclination is to have Kevin ready.
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Don said he had done it a certain way and that it was illegal. The horse is out of the barn. It's gone, it's over. Other than to raise the question of how in fact the sticks are measured and training staffs across the league measure sticks the same way. You need some type of quick seminar.
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You try to generate some things that might be able to give you a push, I'm not sure we got it to the degree that we hoped to. Then again, we lost, so I guess that speaks volumes.