11 ordspråk av Kevin Prendergast
Kevin Prendergast
Can he play in the NHL? Like I said, he has the ability. We'll figure out over the next 18 days whether he can or can't.
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He has the ability to play in this league. But it's up to him to create the spot for himself. He'll be given the opportunity.
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He has to improve the physical aspect and get more involved in the tighter areas,
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He's going to get a fair opportunity to play in some pre-season games, so we'll see,
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I won the first ever flat race here as a jockey back in the early '70s on a horse called Jem Mason trained by Danny Morgan.
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Is he going to make the team? It's up to him. We still don't have that No. 1 centre and we still don't have the guy we think can run the power play for us. He brings that to the table.
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It's a good team and Nate is going to be a good player for them.
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Nobody's making it easy and that's the way we want it. Every game from here on in, they're going to have to be better and it's going to be another measuring stick ... The door isn't open that wide and it's getting tighter every game.
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We've tried to make sure some of the bigger kids we've taken are good skaters, ... You could send a lot of these kids over to the Eskimos and they'd blend right in, but they can move.
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You need the skilled guys and the players who can put the puck away, and we feel like we have some of those kids. At the same time, you have to win in the trenches and you do that with the big kids we're talking about.
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You're not going to be able to win in this conference or this division unless you win the physical battles because of the teams we have to play against,
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