Sorry, Marty, but the world changed since we last addressed your job security. Our top candidate all along just came free, and we feel compelled to act.
Sorry, Marty, but the world changed since we last addressed your job security. Our top candidate all along just came free, and we feel compelled to act.
Are they bad mistakes by the goalie No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.
That's one thing we do have going for us to change things around, is Marty coming back. That does make us a better hockey club.
Marty really helped solidify our blue line. He's really helped calm everyone down back there. I would hate to have him out of the lineup for a long time.
My belief was that I had to put my stake in the ground and build the team around one player. It's not that one player can win or lose for us, but if you have to put a statement. And Marty is my statement player.
Age has nothing to do with it. Heck, I played until I was 52 so I could play with my sons, Mark and Marty. In fact, at 52, I was the leading scorer on the team until Christmas before they benched me.
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
We started the game well and then things fell apart. Losing (Greg) Marty to foul trouble hurt because he was our one consistent scorer.
My son and Marty's son (assistant coach Marty Luc) come to every practice. My son Tommy is 9 and Marty's son L. J. is 7. They can't come on the court until their homework is done. Sometimes, when we have a late practice I'll walk into my office and our players will be helping them with their homework. When we went on a trip to Pennsylvania over the holidays, our players would play with the kids in the pool or take them to the mall. Most high school kids don't want to deal with that, but this group is special. My son's favorite basketball player of all time is Desmond Wade.
I think the backlash is too late, ... And I don't think Oscar voters will blame Marty for Harvey's sins.
I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his birthday.
We looked at Marty and felt Marty had the ability to be a championship goalie. He's going to have to go through all sorts.
You can't blame it on Marty.
Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.
It's a severe suspension, five games. Marty is going to be a big loss to our hockey club, ... but having said that, there's no place in hockey for kicking. I'm very sure that Marty is very sorry it happened. I don't think he intended to injure anybody.
Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.
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