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
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.
fancy trying win words
We're just not doing enough right now. We're not trying to win games, we're just hoping. You can use a lot of fancy words but there's no other way to put it.
explain fragile wish
We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.
bit couple games gone lull played slowly ways
We've done this before where we've played a couple (good) games and gone into a lull again. (But) I think we're slowly getting a little bit more arrogance, a little more confidence. We still have a long ways to go ... but it's something we haven't had in a long time.
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.
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.
best either game picking plan played team
We plan on picking it a notch. We have to. I don't think either team has played its best game yet.
opportunity
We're not down. We're still loose. We look at it as an opportunity to even the series.
building confidence felt good great hard might starts time weeks year
We haven't had too many weeks where we felt good and confident. It's been up and down and up and down and up and down all year. This is the time of year where confidence starts building and that's what we want to do. We're still not there yet. It might look great and it is better, but it's a lot of hard work.
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.