Julien
BOSTON — The days of speculating about his job security are long over.
Bruins head coach Claude Julien is fully ensconced in his job now that he’s led the organization to its first Stanley Cup championship in 39 years.
It’s never too early to plan an encore. And today on the team’s break-up day at TD Garden Julien sounded like a man determined to execute a repeat.
“Well there hasn’t been too many repeat champions in a while and the one thing that I know right now, my feeling is I’d like to be one of those,” he said. “Once you’ve been there … you hear those things, once you’ve been there, you want it even more so. And I’m of that feeling. Even yesterday looking at what is going on around, you think, this is a great feeling, I want this again. And I think that’s what motivated a lot of teams to do that.
“To me the biggest thing right now is managing what is going to go on between now and the start of training camp. There is not much time and I think the guys really need to have a mental break, a physical break. And when we do come back we have to be ready to go. So when we do come back we know the importunacy of, at the start of a season, of making sure you’re in playoff position. So we really have to work on that part of it. We have a couple of months to think about how we want to approach that. But I think that’s going to be a really important part of next year.”
go to cap geek. this team is built for at least one more party. chia needs to use some this year’s cap money to sign some of the six 12-13 ufa’s to long term deals.
http://www.capgeek.com/charts.php?Team=5
Shanimal, Yes I was referring to players from the Junior WHL, OHL, and Players from the Maritimes. USA goalies are great the have one in Buffalo and Vancouver has a future Vancouver superstar in Schneider. They just have to find a way to get him to wave his no trade clause, so he can be shipped to a team like Toronto or Montreal. Then Schneider will be Vancouver’s number one.
Congratulations CJ! Repeat sounds nice.
You are correct Nicklaus, lots of Canadians on this team! There is a certain type of gutless Canadien players abundant on other teams like Vancouver (Burrows, Lapierre) and Montreal that we can do without. Those spineless cheapshot guys can’t really help a team in any way.
And don’t forget that the best Goaltender in 2010-2011 is from Team USA and I expect more of the same from Saint Thomas this fall, right into the winter, next spring, and to another championship parade next June.
Congrats coach. I was a non-believer cuz of your body language behind the bench, and timid utilization of Seguin esp. on PP’s but hell, what do I know.
Would things have turned the way they did without Thorton’s addition to your starting line up though? I know it’s a group thing but hell, you’ve got to realize Thorton’s input was massive. Simply massive.
congrats coach. You were right on. I was not. Keep it working for next year.
Just keep that championship Canadian core on the team. Canadians are the best hockey players in the world. Boston is more of a Canadian team than the Vancouver Canucks. Vancouver’s first and second line offensive core were Swedish and American. Swedes and American hockey players may do well in a short tournament, But Canadian hockey players are more well suited for the tough grind of a long playoff run. Look at the Memorial Cup in Canada and what it takes to win it. The grind is almost as long as the Stanley Cup. It’s in the Canadian hockey player DNA. Keep drafting and attaining the super hockey players of the world from CANADA, and you’ll be Canada’s team south of the border. Too bad Canadian teams don’t look in their own back yard anymore.