Tom Renney People Quotations

I think that what's happening now is that this side of the pond is starting to realize exactly how good this young fellow is. Certainly in Europe and those of us who have had experience over there sort of saw this coming ? not to this degree, I'm not going to take credit for that. But certainly people are starting to realize this guy's for real.

They're well aware of that reputation. They're aware of it and their objective is to prove people wrong.

It's interesting; at what point in time do we stand up and say, we need this, we've got to fix this, change this? We know what we want, we know what we need. We also know we're not going to give up young people to do anything at all. We also know some of those solutions we don't have here this year are coming.

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%.

We had a good transition game and passed the puck up quickly. We got the puck behind people and deep. The best way to beat the trap is not let it set up.

Some people find themselves in harm's way, other people put themselves in harm's way. Usually the winner puts themselves in harm's way; Kaspar helps us identify with that. We need a physical presence. We need more guys playing like that anyway.

The entire bench understands that these people really care and enjoy a good effort.

It may affect our transition game. He's got really good poise with the puck, he's got good deception where he can look people off and then make the appropriate little outlet pass. Those are real critical to our transition game and how much time we spend in our own end.

I just like his good, honest work habits. And he's a caring player and a good teammate. And when you reward people like that with good ice time and opportunity, more often than not they'll deliver to your expectations - as long as they're realistic.

They take good point shots, create traffic at the net and they're hard people to move. Whoever wins the specialty-team game should win the game tonight.

I don't know if we're a Stanley Cup contender right now but I think we can continue to surprise a lot of people by what we do these next 20 games and the playoffs.