100 ordspråk av Glen Hanlon
Glen Hanlon
Our next step of improvement is to play a 20-game stretch where we go .500. If you play .500 for 20 games, that's a pretty good cross-section of the schedule. We haven't spent a lot of time focusing on those things. We've tried to get better and improve and work on our systems. Winning will be a byproduct of that.
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Our penalty killing was as good as it's been in a long time.
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Since I've been here we've tried not to make a point of it. We just want them to be part of the solution and not look back.
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Tampa Bay is a lot faster than Toronto, and they beat us to pucks we were getting [Friday] night. But I thought we had some jump. We made some mistakes. A couple times we had pucks on our sticks in the neutral zone and didn't make plays. Against Toronto we closed really quickly on pucks. Tonight we didn't.
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That caught me off guard a little bit. We're still waiting to get him better so he can play. It's been a long time; he's week-to-week.
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That was our best, likely our best overall game of the season. I thought we had more control of the puck than we have a lot of other nights, and so we ended up taking a lot less amount of penalties (than) we have gotten in the past.
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That's the part I like. He didn't miss a single practice.
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The effort was there. It just gets hard at this stage of the season not to get a win out of it.
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The last goal, we had people standing right where they're supposed to be, but we're not within a stick length [of the puck]. These are all things that good, veteran players don't do.
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The numbers that he has put up are astonishing. But he also likes pressure situations. In big games, he's at his best. That's special.
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The shots on goal are a concern for the coaching staff and the whole team, not just Olie. It's kind of hard to avoid those type of things unless you cut your penalties down. But we're fortunate. We think he's the best goalie in the league.
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The shots were 8-1 at one point and 13-3 and then we had a penalty and we don't kill it. I think that was the story of the game.
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Their speed didn't catch us off guard. This team doesn't sneak up on anybody. We're all well aware of their speed and strengths and how well they can play defensively.
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There's a flow to the game, but when you take penalties, there is no flow.
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There's no way around what we're doing. We're not going to pick five guys off the waiver wire and two weeks from now we're stuck with $3 million worth of salaries and they're not going to be here. It just doesn't make any sense.
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