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
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.
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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.
against beat bitterness canadian country except gold good level mean played pride teams win
There are a lot of good teams there and just because you put on a Canadian jersey, it doesn't mean you're going to win. But that's the pride our country has. Those are the expectations and there's bitterness when you don't get it done. There's nothing else we wanted to do except win the gold medal. And a lot of countries, they just want to beat Canada. They played at a whole new level against us.
opportunity
We're not down. We're still loose. We look at it as an opportunity to even the series.
eighth happened team worry
We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.
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When you score two goals one game and one goal the next and you get four points, that's great because we weren't getting (points) when we were scoring three and four. It's huge and this is going to get everybody's confidence going. We need to pull out games like this and then atmosphere is a little bit better in the workplace, you know?
again close driving fancy keeping net passing pounding score shots
We have to get close to 40 shots again and keeping pounding the puck. Fancy passing plays, those things are not going to get it done. We have to keep driving the net and find a way to score goals.
longer took
When you are in, you are in, it doesn't matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we are in.