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
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.
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.
affect coming concerns deal environment event excited games guys home incumbent issue magnitude mental next pinnacle ready sure themselves
The only thing that concerns me will be how our guys will be coming back from the Olympics. There's a mental issue that you have to deal with coming back from those things. These guys expend so much of themselves at this event. It's such a pinnacle at two-thirds of the way through the season. I don't know how that magnitude of an event is going to affect them. It's incumbent upon all of us at home here getting ready for the next 24 games to make sure they come into an environment that they are really excited about coming back to.
flag nights ready wave white
I'm not ready to wave the white flag on . We will have better nights than tonight.
gun jump mean people ready stay
It's got to stay separate, I don't think we should jump the gun on this one either. We want people to play when they're ready and able to play. And able doesn't necessarily mean 100%.
health mental ready
The most important thing to us is our mental health. In that respect, we are ready to go.
easy kevin knows move ready winning wins
This is all about winning here. No one knows that better than Kevin Weekes. He's made it easy on me ... Kevin will be ready to play, then we'll move on and get our wins with him, too.
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.
attack believe help helped offensive power transition
We believe he can help our power play. We believe we've helped our offensive attack and our transition game.
chance giving hot ourselves ride
We're giving ourselves the chance to ride the hot guy.
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.
dice philosophy
We kind of rolled the dice on this philosophy.