April 21, 2025 • 18 mins
The Utah Hockey Club Head Coach on the 2024-25 season, the future of the club + more
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We will begin with head coach Andre Trini. Falling coach
will be President of Hockey Operations Chris Armstrong and general
manager Bill Armstrong. Please stay your name and affiliation before
asking you questions. Let's start with Catherine.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Coach, what's the overall impression of this season and where
your team took a step on the ice?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, I think we we take we took a lot
of steps. I think if if we can go back
at the training camp, you were asking us how will
you keep the pock out of your net? And how
this team will perform defensively? I think we our underline
numbers showed how much we improve defensively, how much that
team comment to defend better. I think there that will
(00:45):
be a long answer because there there's there were a
lot of improvement mentally in our game management, how to
manager stress. So we we got better playing in front
of our fans and the pressure we're putting on ourself
to perform. I think we overcame that and we we
became really comfortable and we really took it home mis
advantage at the end. I think the way we manage
(01:09):
the pressure streation in game. We played so many tight games,
so many one goal games, so many games where we
had the lead by one or trailing by one in
the third and the way we perform. I think all
of that was a huge step for our.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Team KSL dot Com. As you mentioned, the underlying numbers
are good. A lot of top tens in the league
and a lot of those. What's the process of turning
those underlying numbers into numbers?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The off season is four it's figuring that out. But
I think there there's a lot of part of its growth.
You know it's.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
There.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's the performance, and there's the result. It's started by performing.
When you're right now, we're performing. Our underline numbers showed it.
But I will give you I will compare you to
a situation. You have a young sem in your team
in NHL, at any any any team. Most likely he
will struggle on his face off the first year, and
(02:08):
then you will see the second year will be two
to three percent better and the year after it will
be three to four percent better. I can give you
names of in our team, can give your team in
other team. We look at it. Example, we look at
Jack McBain when he arrived in the league, every year
got better in his face off and he's the same player.
He just get more results. Does he do something really different, No,
(02:33):
he gets more experienced, He perfect his craft, is more
capable of adapting of what the guys on the other
side is doing. You look at Adam Laurie as one
of the best centermen on face off in the league.
Look at his number when he arrive in the league.
Forty got better, got better, got better. Now now it's
(02:54):
really tough, you know. So I my comperison on the
same thing for the team right now. The process is
a good one every every time we want to know
get a little bit better in our result. The performance
has to sustain and even improve. We're not satisfied by
any means where we recognize the progress. We'll recognize what's
(03:14):
been done, but we will keep getting better in our process.
But we believe our team second youngest team in the league.
That's that's sometimes what you get. You you don't have
always the result you want. You don't have what you
want to.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Show for Belfraser, Saltlake Tribune. Just looking at the off season,
what do you think the team needs in terms of
personnel or areas of growth with the guys you do
have to come in next year stronger.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, Look, it's the same same kind of air and everything.
But you can ask him that. You know. That's and
I appreciate your question. Just joking, it's I think that's
will be a question for Bill. I think we we
had our words at meeting when we're looking for and
stuff like that. I think that said. My job, it's
not too talk about what we want to add in
(04:04):
our team. My job is to work with the player
or provided. And I'm really happy about the progression in
that sense has been made. If you look in the
last twelve months what we had to the lineup, the Cozy,
the Surrogate, the Marines, the Odi, Matta Desimon, that's on
(04:24):
the back end. Up front, we had addition as well,
you know, the standing and so on and so forth.
So we improved a lot. There's still what I like
about what we did. And you know, if I look
back a couple of years ago, we need a player,
no matter what. If you're a good player, we're happy
to have you. Now we're looking for specific area of
(04:46):
our game to be better. Specific area which that will
be touched later on. But I'm not sure that's for
the public. I don't want the GM and the coach
on the other side to know exactly what we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Broken Houston from Desrat News, I'm just wondering, how have
you noticed the fans kind of hockey intelligence grow over
this last year.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know, that's a good question. You know from our site,
there's three things for me, the coaches were really grateful.
The first thing is our fans. I think the way
they sport us all year long, the enthusiasm and their arena,
the love we got on and off the ice everywhere,
(05:32):
the way they will come us in Utah, people of Utah,
the way they did it. It's we're so grateful for it.
It may make it easy, made it exciting, meaning we
wanted to perform for them, and I think we created
that connection. It was magical. That's one. Two it's we're
grateful for our ownership. I think Ryan and Ashley, the
(05:54):
way they treated us and what they provide for us
in the environment they create and the value they push
it inside of our organization. It's it's been awesome. So
we're really grateful for them to to be with us
and to support us all the time. And the third one,
and I cannot go beside that, it's our player, the
way they fought, the way they progressed, the way you know,
(06:16):
every along the way I talk the first question about
how we progress this season. Every time they put their
mind at something, they really dig in to improve and
they were resilient, they were connected, they were engaged, they
were disciplined on what we have to do to get better,
and they really get better. So I'm really grateful for
their effort, their commitment, their their enthusiasm, the way they
(06:39):
embrace the community. And you did that that was that
was amazing. So for those things, I'm really really grateful.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Tom Walker Sports Radio Service following up a little bit
on Broken's questions. So it's been a year now since
the airplane landed. You headed off to the Delta Center
for the first time. You had that amazing reception there.
What surprised you most in the last year's coming here
about the state of Utah the fans. When you go
out in public, do you get recognized? What's it like.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
There?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
First of all, it's what impressed me to most of
the people. What what's impressed It might probably not be
the right word, but what where they The best impression
I had is on the people in the sense of
everywhere I go, from the restaurants, from everywhere in the crowd,
even when it was coming in the Jazz game. You know,
it's not the same necessarily fans, But people were talking
(07:33):
about how much they embrace hockey. They didn't know hockey
and now they love the game. They love that the team,
and they love they come at the game and all
that stuff. I think you never know you're you're going
into the new city. People were talking about the culture
of hockey. It's not it's not the same then otters
(07:53):
and we didn't feel that at all. We didn't feel
we were uh kind of on known or whatever. We
really feel the people embrace our team and are excited
they were, so I think there's a lot to talk
about that. I think I will have never said that
a year ago. But when you go somewhere and you
(08:14):
feel people want you, that make you feel really, really
damn good. It's tough to not get out of your
bed and be excited. You're excited to, eh, let's get better,
today's let's get at it. And I think that's created
to the people I just mentioned before, from our player
to our ownership, especially the fans.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sarah Marica do you Tall Hockey Club, now that you've
had a chance to digest the season, was there a
moment or a stretch or a game that you felt like,
this is an indicator of what this team is going
to look like in five ten years from now.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I will no, I did not analyze it that way,
but I will tell you the game against Van, the
poise of our team, the education we were so could
have a bomb in the ring and well, I'm not
changed our focus. I was straight on un Waiver ring
was wow, Okay, that's where that's where we want to go.
(09:11):
I think that's my first reaction, but probably if I
put more thoughts in it, I will have a better
answer or more moments. But I'm sorry we talk about
it as a team. Where that game was? I was
tuned in.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Catherin berg Ot, Utah Hockey Club. Every year the league
gets more competitive and really any team can win any night.
Where did you see the entire league take a step
And are there any trends that you're seeing teams play
a certain way that you haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We can get technical on that one, but you're you're
totally right. There's difference, and you know everybody I Juss.
That's the thing. It's it's uh, you need not just
adjusted what happened last year. You need to try to
have a vision of where the game's going. And just
give an example a couple of years ago, when you
were activating your d that was opening a lot of
(10:06):
space on top of the zone. The winger were shrinking,
and that's the way we were creating our offense last year.
That's that the T team figured that out and now
everybody players certain away against the high cycling and you
cannot get in the center of the ice by doing that.
You need to change the way. So there's a lot
of improvement. There's a lot of more broken play, dirty play.
(10:29):
There's you know before they were but it's still but
it's less. There's a there were a huge difference between
the season and the playoffs. That was two different league.
Now it's closer, it's still the playoff is another level
of intensity. You probably had to watching to watch a
few games. So that's on real hockey, you cannot wait
(10:51):
to be in there. But it's it's it's closer to
the season. I felt this year in November that were
already level of intensity was okay, we know and they
know where in the playoff race, we know that two
points is something really important, which before I felt there
(11:12):
were more lead away there were more. Okay, we'll see
where everybody here is that Thanksgiving? And then well we'll
see about the All Star break or four Nation and
I failed the urgency where ELI during the season, where
November and team were going at it, I was kind
of wow, okay, where it's.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Huh Dana Green with ABC four at the beginning of
the year, you probably could have made a lot of
money if you bet that corev Melco would be voted
the team MVP. I mean, he came from virtual anonymities,
the backup to maybe the most important player on the
team this year, and now he's the future. He is
the goalie of the future. What does he mean to
this franchise? And where did you see him really kind
(11:54):
of connect as the guy in then you.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Know it's it's a really good question as a good observation.
But having that said, there's nothing vid she did this year.
Well I should not say nothing, but his performance this
year did not surprise us in term of he can
do that. What he did different is staying because those
kinds of miracles you saw We saw that before. I
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saw that in his first year. Bill and I and
the coach Well still talk about his game in Winnipeg
where we won one nothing his first year, where we
didn't touch the park. He just won the game by himself.
So that did happen before. We saw by stretch, the
(12:41):
way he played this year. We saw that by stretch
in the last three year. Well, we saw this year's consistency.
He had a social training camp. We talk with him
and he agreed with that. Then he came out of
the training camp and he was playing most of the game,
but he got his RIDTHM slowly and he started to
perform or outperform at some point. And then he had
(13:03):
his injury and his treation and then give the importance Veggie,
and he really took off from there. What he did,
he sustained the performance who was doing at that moment
was not like for us, where's that coming from? Okay,
now we know he can do that? Can he sustain?
(13:23):
Will he sustain? And I think it was more equipped.
He's older, he has more experience, you know. There to
the question a little bit earlier about about the stat
ad Vin stats versus the actual result it's the same
thing for a goalie. It's it's same thing for defenseman, center,
and etcetera, etcetera. It's the experience. Now we knew he
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was capable of doing it. Now it's capable of doing
it on a more consistent base.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Jeff right here with Fox thirteen. You've been through this
process of the rebuild as the head coach. Now that
you're at this point, what is it like to be
the head coach of this group knowing now you guys
are playoff contenders.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's that's fun, you know. Don't get me wrong. I
embrace every stage because every stage bring a challenge, bring something,
get you going to you. You're chasing something, so there's
challenge and important phases. It's an important stage. I think
(14:26):
Dad said, you do all of that for one reason,
to win. We want to win the Cup. That's what
we want. Where are we in that stage? I will
let you judge that. Having that said, we know we're
getting better and it's exciting because okay, now we're getting there.
Now we're competitive every night, and now we're looking at
the team on the other side and we're not thinking
if they play their B game and we play our
(14:48):
A game.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
We got them.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now we're thinking, okay, let's let's put the two teams
and play our a game, both of us, and we'll
figure it out in the last five minutes. Who get
the post in? You know, that's that's a that's a
great feeling.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Helphraser Sualtake Tribune. When we talked to Michael Krconi, he
said he felt like he didn't have the right opportunity
to prove himself, but he understood because of the place
the team is in. What was it like for you
balancing your lineup when so many of the young players
were having the seasons that they did.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's two part of it. There's the business side, who
it is, what it is. You know, at the end
of the day, you need to perform. It's the best
league in the world, and it is what it is,
and my job is to put the guy who performed
the most on the ice. But then there's a personal site.
Michael Karkone is one of my favorite guy in the
locker room. He's a great guy. He's fun to talk to,
he's a straight shooter. His great family, his wife is unbelievable,
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his kids are they have a energy forever. I love
everything about carts every every day. He's fun to interact with.
You do video session with him. There's no bs's. I
love carks, So I don't like that. I don't like
the situation. I didn't like to go see him and say, hey,
you're not playing tonight's. It was not a fun time
of my day. I think that I have no problem
(16:07):
to do it. It's the business. I'm hired to be
the coach and I love to be the coach of
the team. But it's the same thing with every other player.
You can talk about every guys who were not playing regularly.
Leam O'Brien. I think everybody know how much I love Obi.
He didn't play for thirty odd game. That's business. I
feel bad business wise about it. No, that was the
(16:30):
decision we took as a as a staff, as all organization.
That's the direction we were going in and there were
reasons for that, and unfortunately for Obi, we didn't have
any injury up front and that led for him to
not play for a long long time. On the business side,
it is what it is. On the personal side, I
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thought was not a fun situation. I think this guy
can play in the regular basis every day in the NHL,
So that was not fun. But at the end of
the day, we're here for business first and we need
to take care of the people. But it's business. We
need to deliver, we need to win game, we need
to transform our numbers and result and that's the way
(17:12):
it is. And it's unfortunate some player that affect their
professional life slash personal life and it will be like
that every year and more problem like that we have
better it is. That's mean we have a better team,
and that's what happened to Karks or Utter this year.
We had a better team, and we create accountability and
(17:32):
some guys earn a better job and some guys lose
their job. That will be well unfortunately or fortunately, depends
on which side you are in.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Broken Houston again does right news. I'm just wondering if
you're planning on going to the World Championship this summer.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm not, no, no. This year will be a little
bit of time with the staff and playoff will follow
the playoff. We'll do it a little bit of a
scouting in the playoff as well, and uh that will
be uh prepping for next year and take some personal time.
I think everybody understand last summer was. It was what
(18:16):
it was, so try to make up for it a
little bit and take care of the family. And no,
my kids are a little bit spread out. They're all
in Quebec, but they're all about eight hours apart, so
there's a little bit of travel. Mommy planning, a little
bit of travel.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Any more questions for coach? All right, thank you coach.
We'll have Bill and Chris momentarily.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
All season was great, It was great for a year.
Thank you.
We will begin with head coach Andre Trini. Falling coach
will be President of Hockey Operations Chris Armstrong and general
manager Bill Armstrong. Please stay your name and affiliation before
asking you questions. Let's start with Catherine.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Coach, what's the overall impression of this season and where
your team took a step on the ice?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, I think we we take we took a lot
of steps. I think if if we can go back
at the training camp, you were asking us how will
you keep the pock out of your net? And how
this team will perform defensively? I think we our underline
numbers showed how much we improve defensively, how much that
team comment to defend better. I think there that will
(00:45):
be a long answer because there there's there were a
lot of improvement mentally in our game management, how to
manager stress. So we we got better playing in front
of our fans and the pressure we're putting on ourself
to perform. I think we overcame that and we we
became really comfortable and we really took it home mis
advantage at the end. I think the way we manage
(01:09):
the pressure streation in game. We played so many tight games,
so many one goal games, so many games where we
had the lead by one or trailing by one in
the third and the way we perform. I think all
of that was a huge step for our.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Team KSL dot Com. As you mentioned, the underlying numbers
are good. A lot of top tens in the league
and a lot of those. What's the process of turning
those underlying numbers into numbers?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The off season is four it's figuring that out. But
I think there there's a lot of part of its growth.
You know it's.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
There.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's the performance, and there's the result. It's started by performing.
When you're right now, we're performing. Our underline numbers showed it.
But I will give you I will compare you to
a situation. You have a young sem in your team
in NHL, at any any any team. Most likely he
will struggle on his face off the first year, and
(02:08):
then you will see the second year will be two
to three percent better and the year after it will
be three to four percent better. I can give you
names of in our team, can give your team in
other team. We look at it. Example, we look at
Jack McBain when he arrived in the league, every year
got better in his face off and he's the same player.
He just get more results. Does he do something really different, No,
(02:33):
he gets more experienced, He perfect his craft, is more
capable of adapting of what the guys on the other
side is doing. You look at Adam Laurie as one
of the best centermen on face off in the league.
Look at his number when he arrive in the league.
Forty got better, got better, got better. Now now it's
(02:54):
really tough, you know. So I my comperison on the
same thing for the team right now. The process is
a good one every every time we want to know
get a little bit better in our result. The performance
has to sustain and even improve. We're not satisfied by
any means where we recognize the progress. We'll recognize what's
(03:14):
been done, but we will keep getting better in our process.
But we believe our team second youngest team in the league.
That's that's sometimes what you get. You you don't have
always the result you want. You don't have what you
want to.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Show for Belfraser, Saltlake Tribune. Just looking at the off season,
what do you think the team needs in terms of
personnel or areas of growth with the guys you do
have to come in next year stronger.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
No, Look, it's the same same kind of air and everything.
But you can ask him that. You know. That's and
I appreciate your question. Just joking, it's I think that's
will be a question for Bill. I think we we
had our words at meeting when we're looking for and
stuff like that. I think that said. My job, it's
not too talk about what we want to add in
(04:04):
our team. My job is to work with the player
or provided. And I'm really happy about the progression in
that sense has been made. If you look in the
last twelve months what we had to the lineup, the Cozy,
the Surrogate, the Marines, the Odi, Matta Desimon, that's on
(04:24):
the back end. Up front, we had addition as well,
you know, the standing and so on and so forth.
So we improved a lot. There's still what I like
about what we did. And you know, if I look
back a couple of years ago, we need a player,
no matter what. If you're a good player, we're happy
to have you. Now we're looking for specific area of
(04:46):
our game to be better. Specific area which that will
be touched later on. But I'm not sure that's for
the public. I don't want the GM and the coach
on the other side to know exactly what we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Broken Houston from Desrat News, I'm just wondering, how have
you noticed the fans kind of hockey intelligence grow over
this last year.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know, that's a good question. You know from our site,
there's three things for me, the coaches were really grateful.
The first thing is our fans. I think the way
they sport us all year long, the enthusiasm and their arena,
the love we got on and off the ice everywhere,
(05:32):
the way they will come us in Utah, people of Utah,
the way they did it. It's we're so grateful for it.
It may make it easy, made it exciting, meaning we
wanted to perform for them, and I think we created
that connection. It was magical. That's one. Two it's we're
grateful for our ownership. I think Ryan and Ashley, the
(05:54):
way they treated us and what they provide for us
in the environment they create and the value they push
it inside of our organization. It's it's been awesome. So
we're really grateful for them to to be with us
and to support us all the time. And the third one,
and I cannot go beside that, it's our player, the
way they fought, the way they progressed, the way you know,
(06:16):
every along the way I talk the first question about
how we progress this season. Every time they put their
mind at something, they really dig in to improve and
they were resilient, they were connected, they were engaged, they
were disciplined on what we have to do to get better,
and they really get better. So I'm really grateful for
their effort, their commitment, their their enthusiasm, the way they
(06:39):
embrace the community. And you did that that was that
was amazing. So for those things, I'm really really grateful.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Tom Walker Sports Radio Service following up a little bit
on Broken's questions. So it's been a year now since
the airplane landed. You headed off to the Delta Center
for the first time. You had that amazing reception there.
What surprised you most in the last year's coming here
about the state of Utah the fans. When you go
out in public, do you get recognized? What's it like.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
There?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
First of all, it's what impressed me to most of
the people. What what's impressed It might probably not be
the right word, but what where they The best impression
I had is on the people in the sense of
everywhere I go, from the restaurants, from everywhere in the crowd,
even when it was coming in the Jazz game. You know,
it's not the same necessarily fans, But people were talking
(07:33):
about how much they embrace hockey. They didn't know hockey
and now they love the game. They love that the team,
and they love they come at the game and all
that stuff. I think you never know you're you're going
into the new city. People were talking about the culture
of hockey. It's not it's not the same then otters
(07:53):
and we didn't feel that at all. We didn't feel
we were uh kind of on known or whatever. We
really feel the people embrace our team and are excited
they were, so I think there's a lot to talk
about that. I think I will have never said that
a year ago. But when you go somewhere and you
(08:14):
feel people want you, that make you feel really, really
damn good. It's tough to not get out of your
bed and be excited. You're excited to, eh, let's get better,
today's let's get at it. And I think that's created
to the people I just mentioned before, from our player
to our ownership, especially the fans.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sarah Marica do you Tall Hockey Club, now that you've
had a chance to digest the season, was there a
moment or a stretch or a game that you felt like,
this is an indicator of what this team is going
to look like in five ten years from now.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I will no, I did not analyze it that way,
but I will tell you the game against Van, the
poise of our team, the education we were so could
have a bomb in the ring and well, I'm not
changed our focus. I was straight on un Waiver ring
was wow, Okay, that's where that's where we want to go.
(09:11):
I think that's my first reaction, but probably if I
put more thoughts in it, I will have a better
answer or more moments. But I'm sorry we talk about
it as a team. Where that game was? I was
tuned in.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Catherin berg Ot, Utah Hockey Club. Every year the league
gets more competitive and really any team can win any night.
Where did you see the entire league take a step
And are there any trends that you're seeing teams play
a certain way that you haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We can get technical on that one, but you're you're
totally right. There's difference, and you know everybody I Juss.
That's the thing. It's it's uh, you need not just
adjusted what happened last year. You need to try to
have a vision of where the game's going. And just
give an example a couple of years ago, when you
were activating your d that was opening a lot of
(10:06):
space on top of the zone. The winger were shrinking,
and that's the way we were creating our offense last year.
That's that the T team figured that out and now
everybody players certain away against the high cycling and you
cannot get in the center of the ice by doing that.
You need to change the way. So there's a lot
of improvement. There's a lot of more broken play, dirty play.
(10:29):
There's you know before they were but it's still but
it's less. There's a there were a huge difference between
the season and the playoffs. That was two different league.
Now it's closer, it's still the playoff is another level
of intensity. You probably had to watching to watch a
few games. So that's on real hockey, you cannot wait
(10:51):
to be in there. But it's it's it's closer to
the season. I felt this year in November that were
already level of intensity was okay, we know and they
know where in the playoff race, we know that two
points is something really important, which before I felt there
(11:12):
were more lead away there were more. Okay, we'll see
where everybody here is that Thanksgiving? And then well we'll
see about the All Star break or four Nation and
I failed the urgency where ELI during the season, where
November and team were going at it, I was kind
of wow, okay, where it's.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
Huh Dana Green with ABC four at the beginning of
the year, you probably could have made a lot of
money if you bet that corev Melco would be voted
the team MVP. I mean, he came from virtual anonymities,
the backup to maybe the most important player on the
team this year, and now he's the future. He is
the goalie of the future. What does he mean to
this franchise? And where did you see him really kind
(11:54):
of connect as the guy in then you.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Know it's it's a really good question as a good observation.
But having that said, there's nothing vid she did this year.
Well I should not say nothing, but his performance this
year did not surprise us in term of he can
do that. What he did different is staying because those
kinds of miracles you saw We saw that before. I
(12:21):
saw that in his first year. Bill and I and
the coach Well still talk about his game in Winnipeg
where we won one nothing his first year, where we
didn't touch the park. He just won the game by himself.
So that did happen before. We saw by stretch, the
(12:41):
way he played this year. We saw that by stretch
in the last three year. Well, we saw this year's consistency.
He had a social training camp. We talk with him
and he agreed with that. Then he came out of
the training camp and he was playing most of the game,
but he got his RIDTHM slowly and he started to
perform or outperform at some point. And then he had
(13:03):
his injury and his treation and then give the importance Veggie,
and he really took off from there. What he did,
he sustained the performance who was doing at that moment
was not like for us, where's that coming from? Okay,
now we know he can do that? Can he sustain?
(13:23):
Will he sustain? And I think it was more equipped.
He's older, he has more experience, you know. There to
the question a little bit earlier about about the stat
ad Vin stats versus the actual result it's the same
thing for a goalie. It's it's same thing for defenseman, center,
and etcetera, etcetera. It's the experience. Now we knew he
(13:46):
was capable of doing it. Now it's capable of doing
it on a more consistent base.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Jeff right here with Fox thirteen. You've been through this
process of the rebuild as the head coach. Now that
you're at this point, what is it like to be
the head coach of this group knowing now you guys
are playoff contenders.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's that's fun, you know. Don't get me wrong. I
embrace every stage because every stage bring a challenge, bring something,
get you going to you. You're chasing something, so there's
challenge and important phases. It's an important stage. I think
(14:26):
Dad said, you do all of that for one reason,
to win. We want to win the Cup. That's what
we want. Where are we in that stage? I will
let you judge that. Having that said, we know we're
getting better and it's exciting because okay, now we're getting there.
Now we're competitive every night, and now we're looking at
the team on the other side and we're not thinking
if they play their B game and we play our
(14:48):
A game.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
We got them.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now we're thinking, okay, let's let's put the two teams
and play our a game, both of us, and we'll
figure it out in the last five minutes. Who get
the post in? You know, that's that's a that's a
great feeling.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Helphraser Sualtake Tribune. When we talked to Michael Krconi, he
said he felt like he didn't have the right opportunity
to prove himself, but he understood because of the place
the team is in. What was it like for you
balancing your lineup when so many of the young players
were having the seasons that they did.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's two part of it. There's the business side, who
it is, what it is. You know, at the end
of the day, you need to perform. It's the best
league in the world, and it is what it is,
and my job is to put the guy who performed
the most on the ice. But then there's a personal site.
Michael Karkone is one of my favorite guy in the
locker room. He's a great guy. He's fun to talk to,
he's a straight shooter. His great family, his wife is unbelievable,
(15:46):
his kids are they have a energy forever. I love
everything about carts every every day. He's fun to interact with.
You do video session with him. There's no bs's. I
love carks, So I don't like that. I don't like
the situation. I didn't like to go see him and say, hey,
you're not playing tonight's. It was not a fun time
of my day. I think that I have no problem
(16:07):
to do it. It's the business. I'm hired to be
the coach and I love to be the coach of
the team. But it's the same thing with every other player.
You can talk about every guys who were not playing regularly.
Leam O'Brien. I think everybody know how much I love Obi.
He didn't play for thirty odd game. That's business. I
feel bad business wise about it. No, that was the
(16:30):
decision we took as a as a staff, as all organization.
That's the direction we were going in and there were
reasons for that, and unfortunately for Obi, we didn't have
any injury up front and that led for him to
not play for a long long time. On the business side,
it is what it is. On the personal side, I
(16:50):
thought was not a fun situation. I think this guy
can play in the regular basis every day in the NHL,
So that was not fun. But at the end of
the day, we're here for business first and we need
to take care of the people. But it's business. We
need to deliver, we need to win game, we need
to transform our numbers and result and that's the way
(17:12):
it is. And it's unfortunate some player that affect their
professional life slash personal life and it will be like
that every year and more problem like that we have
better it is. That's mean we have a better team,
and that's what happened to Karks or Utter this year.
We had a better team, and we create accountability and
(17:32):
some guys earn a better job and some guys lose
their job. That will be well unfortunately or fortunately, depends
on which side you are in.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Broken Houston again does right news. I'm just wondering if
you're planning on going to the World Championship this summer.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm not, no, no. This year will be a little
bit of time with the staff and playoff will follow
the playoff. We'll do it a little bit of a
scouting in the playoff as well, and uh that will
be uh prepping for next year and take some personal time.
I think everybody understand last summer was. It was what
(18:16):
it was, so try to make up for it a
little bit and take care of the family. And no,
my kids are a little bit spread out. They're all
in Quebec, but they're all about eight hours apart, so
there's a little bit of travel. Mommy planning, a little
bit of travel.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Any more questions for coach? All right, thank you coach.
We'll have Bill and Chris momentarily.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
All season was great, It was great for a year.
Thank you.
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