Wes Walz
Wes Walz
Wesley Walzis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and former assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. Wes currently works as a sports analyst on Fox Sports North for the Minnesota Wild Hockey Club. Walz volunteered as an assistant coach with the Raptors of East Ridge High School, Woodbury, Minnesota. There he coached his son, Kelvin, on the boys varsity ice hockey team and a few years later he coached his daughter, Jaedyn, on...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth15 May 1970
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I didn't think I had to go out and get that one back. It just turned out that way.
call officials paying replay
If I'm paying those guys' salaries, I don't want them in there. It's a joke. Why do we even have replay officials if they're not going to call that?
brought dressing five forward knowledge moving players room team
I don't see this team moving forward without Jacques. He's brought so much credibility and knowledge into our dressing room by making the players responsible and doing the same thing for five years.
fortunate games gave penalties seven six
If you take more than six or seven penalties in a game, you put yourself in such a disadvantage. There's going to be games when sometimes it just happens. We've been fortunate to been able to kill off those penalties in the past. But unfortunately, they got the power-play goal, and it gave them momentum.
pride play race
We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.
team fall adversity
We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.
adversity race wind
It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.