“As a four-year-old growing up in the small city of Steinbach, Manitoba, I wandered on to an outdoor

New head coach of the Edmonton Oilers Ralph Krueger, speaks to media during the announcement of his new position with the Oilers in Sherwood Park, Alta., on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Photograph by: Jason Franson
• Get his veteran core to produce infinitely more than they did last season, when only Ryan Smyth (for the first half) gave them any offensive spark to complete young stars Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
He's armed with a three-year contract, which should buy him some time to get to the next step. Returning national rental car agencies will be loyal coaching soldiers Smith, Kelly Buchberger, goalie coach Fred Chabot, video coach Myles Fee and skating instructor Steve Serdachny, who were all part of Renney's staff.
For now, Krueger, who has been auditioning for this NHL head-coaching post for the last two decades since a chronic back ended his starry playing career in Germany, will not be hiring national rental car agencies an associate coach.
national rental car agencies This is Krueger's team now. He says he wants an attacking team. You might see them trying to play like the St. Louis Blues, national rental car agencies who outnumbered opposing teams in their zone with their swarming style and wouldn't let them out, forcing turnovers rather than be an offence that had to go 200 feet to score.
Certainly, his Swiss team overachieved on many occasions, like in 1998, when they finished fourth at the world championships in Zurich, and in 2006, when they blanked national rental car agencies Canada at the Torino Olympics 2-0, prompting Canadian coach Pat Quinn, who would later have one year behind the Oilers bench, to flatteringly say they played the Canadian game better than his club did.
The Oilers national rental car agencies interviewed Marc Crawford, runner-up for the Montreal Canadiens job to Michel Therrien. They talked to rising star Jon Cooper, who has won everywhere he's been, most recently with Tampa's AHL championship national rental car agencies team in Norfolk, Va. They may have talked to highly successful farm coach Todd Nelson, but feel, for now, he's more valuable running their club in Oklahoma City. They did not sound out former Calgary coach Brent Sutter for the job, but maybe Sutter's gig as Canadian team coach at the worlds in Helsinki for weeks was an interview of sorts.
"As a four-year-old growing up in the small city of Steinbach, Manitoba, I wandered on to an outdoor ice rink and for Christmas I got a stick, some skates national rental car agencies and some gloves and discovered my love for the game of hockey. The love and the passion has never died and I've led a very exciting life, step by step, to where I'm sitting today."
Oilers GM Steve Tambellini saw Krueger's ability with the Swiss national team because he was part of Canada's Olympic management group. He saw Krueger's technical savvy and teaching ability as Renney's associate coach.
"From talking to guys who've played for him, they talked about his clarity and leadership and his motivation," said Tambellini, who gave Krueger several weeks away from the Oilers to "get his thoughts together to present himself as a leader and a head coach. It is different when you're national rental car agencies talking to an assistant coach. The message is different."
"It was a great experience for me, but until a team is in your hands and you are the leader, you can't put your stamp on the organization. I needed these two years (associate coach). When I first came to the NHL, I didn't feel myself ready and I've never been one to rush anything in my life. I'm ready for this now."
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