Brad Richards
Brad Richards
Bradley Glenn "Brad" Richardsis a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre in the National Hockey League. Richards was drafted in the third round, 64th overall, by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and played for the Lightning, New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth2 May 1980
chance hurt plays power
We had a chance to go up 2-0 or even 3-0 with some power plays and we couldn't do it -- that really hurt us.
confidence happy proud roll
We're on a roll here right now and we didn't want to end that. To come back from 2-0, it's huge. It's so much more confidence for the guys. We're happy and proud of ourselves.
found time ways year
We found a way ... that's what we've been doing. We've found ways to win, and this is the time of year you have to do it.
deserve game kept sit won
We didn't deserve better. You can't sit there and say that we should have won this game. We were waiting. We started the game pretty good, but as the game went on, we just kept waiting. I don't know why.
bad good pressure team teams win
When you've had a good team for that many years, the pressure will mount. There's only so many teams that can win, so it's not like they're bad players. But they're like everyone else - they want to win this thing.
anybody compete confident fine
We're fine with our team. We're very confident we can compete with anybody any night. I think we're a better team, we're more experienced.
best foot ourselves period played series shot start worry
We shot ourselves in the foot to start out. They played their best period of the series in the first. I just think we have to worry about ourselves. We have to come out a lot better.
good third tie win
We're good enough to win anywhere. We had a 2-2 tie in the third and we didn't get it done.
asked happy pick
We're just happy to be in. You don't want to be asked to pick your poison.
explain fragile wish
We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.
bit great opportunity series turn
We're still a bit loose. It's a great opportunity to even the series and turn it into a best-of-three. That's all we want to do now.
percent step win
This was not a step backward. If we play like that every night, we're going to win 80 percent of our games.
atlanta closest control florida outside playing playoff teams three twice
We can control our own destiny, especially playing Atlanta twice more and Florida three more times, those teams are the closest to us outside a playoff spot.
beat excuses head high lost ok playing playoffs pushing question
There are no excuses not to win, this is the playoffs for us. You don't ever want to say it was OK when we lost the game, but I'm not going to beat myself up or question how we've been playing of late. We're going to keep our head high and keep pushing the way we've been going of late.