Tom Renney Certainly Quotations

My guess is we'll certainly be emotionally attached to the game like we should. Whether or not we execute in a way we want remains to be seen.

Mission important and possible. It's a race to four games and they've only got three. As far as I'm concerned, we can certainly do that.

Certainly he delivered what he needed to do for us from that point of view. I'd like to have gotten him a little bit more minutes and that'll happen in the future. Just watching his game, he's got good hockey sense. We'll continue to work with him . . . and develop him even further.

He wants badly to win. He wants everyone to enjoy something very special with his help. Not thanks to him, but certainly with his help. I think that really motivates him. He takes this very seriously.

He was certainly on a mission. He wanted this one badly, obviously, and he did the things that a leader has to do.

He said he felt a little tight. By the time I left the ice, I wasn't aware there was much of a problem. But certainly talking to (trainer) Jim Ramsey afterwards he felt very uncomfortable.

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.

It certainly changed the complexion of our team. We're looking to develop some confidence and create some momentum. If we got a goal there, that's probably it.

We want him to stay out of the penalty box. At the same time, it's a fine line, because you don't want him to change his game. He can certainly influence a game, and I thought he did. I thought we created a bit of an advantage for ourselves by the way he came out to play, and maybe he took New Jersey off their game, at least initially.

Did we expect him to be on our No. 1 power-play unit at this stage of the season? Maybe, but only as an interim thing or if we needed a spark or whatever. Certainly he's secured himself as an offensive player on our team.

To his credit, he's certainly been the consummate team guy and likely in retrospect having even deserved more starts than he's gotten. His injuries have prevented that from happening. These are big games for us moving forward and he'll play a significant role in how far we go here in these next games and hopefully what we do beyond that.

Every game to us is very valuable but this does conjure up the type of emotion that is playoff-type hockey, or certainly consequential hockey. We want to play that as much as possible, because it makes us better.

I suggested it's judgment day for a lot of reasons. I did not allude to anyone's individual status. But this season certainly could be recognized by how we choose to perform on Saturday.

Certainly we would like to close the gap between us and do it in a way that gives them something to think about going forward. We certainly see enough of them down the stretch.

It's an exciting time, obviously, I think for everyone. We hope to live up to our end of the bargain and make it exciting for our fans. But certainly we're happy to be back.

It's a little unexpected, obviously. Certainly this has gone to this point better than I expected.

There might be a minor sense of relief there for the players. They've certainly been on a mission all year long to acquire this playoff spot. It might even free us up to begin to turn the corner and play like we had been playing for the most part of this year. I think we're a little tight.

They're in the NHL. They're on our team. We have to generate more shots, we have to generate more traffic. We have to make life tough for our opponent to defend so that even though they might not be pretty goals we certainly can put the puck in the net.