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
ahead assume experience might road sure tougher
It is important to experience everything that you might see in the playoffs. But having said that, we have to make sure that we don't assume anything...And if we play the way we did tonight, it's going to be a tougher road ahead of us than we think.
might ok tougher wednesday
Wednesday will be the tougher day. If they get through that they'll probably be OK for Thursday's game. We might have to make some tough decisions.
attention beaten details games hang might nice ourselves pay ultimately win
I didn't think we were real sharp, real crisp (early in the game), and if we weren't careful, we might have beaten ourselves tonight. But we did hang in there and we did pay attention to details that can win you games and ultimately got ourselves a nice lead.
acquire begin certainly corner free might minor mission playing playoff relief turn year
There might be a minor sense of relief there for the players. They've certainly been on a mission all year long to acquire this playoff spot. It might even free us up to begin to turn the corner and play like we had been playing for the most part of this year. I think we're a little tight.
might minor relief
There might be a minor sense of relief there for the players.
dozen half harder hope last maybe might road symbolic team tonight value works
This lineup tonight could be symbolic of what it might take down the road here and in the playoffs. We hope the team understands the value of that and works harder to play that way than maybe they have the last half dozen games.
certainly defend generate goals life might opponent puck though tough
They're in the NHL. They're on our team. We have to generate more shots, we have to generate more traffic. We have to make life tough for our opponent to defend so that even though they might not be pretty goals we certainly can put the puck in the net.
coach hockey might
It was hormone hockey at it's best. It might have been entertaining, but for a coach it was a nightmare.
click clicked might quickly
It's 82 games. Sometimes it might not click as quickly or as well as you want it to, or sometimes not at all. For our team, we've clicked more than we haven't . . .
degree generate guess hoped might speaks sure
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.
might
It was not pretty. That might be the understatement of the year.
believe care city define flat good hard honest pride trust ways
When you look at the third- and fourth-line guys, in a lot of ways they define what you want to take pride in and what we believe this city will appreciate, too. Flat out hard work, good honest work, (and) trust and care in each other.
circumstance dictate games good habits manage start
We've got to get back to good habits of how we start our games ... how we manage the circumstances in those first six, eight, 10 minutes. We have to try to dictate the terms.
confidence gave opponents
(Without Jagr) it probably gave our opponents some confidence at least.