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
couple games stolen
He's stolen a couple games for us already.
competition game
This is the competition we're used to playing, and this is the game we're used to playing.
ahead care extra gained games huge moved points regular teams
It's huge to get that extra point. We don't care what other teams are doing. That's just like a regular two points for us. It's a win. No other way to put it. With 29 games left, we gained a point (on Toronto) and moved up two points on the teams ahead of us.
deal facing game sounds sure team wide
I know this sounds like a cliche, but we've got to keep it simple. We've got to play an up-and-down game and make sure that we're going north/south. I know that the team we're facing is going to try to go wide on us, but we're just going to have to deal with that.
bad control doom figure forget game hockey people power third until work
I know people are going to think it's all doom and gloom, two bad losses, but we shouldn't be down 2-1 going into the third period. Forget about the third period, we shouldn't have been down, but that's the way hockey is, unfortunately. But we have to try to come to work and figure out how to take control of the game with that power play and until we do that it's going to be a dogfight every night.
game huge
Every game is huge right now. We're going to get out of this.
criticized marty wrong
Marty got criticized for all the wrong reasons. Marty always cared. Marty was still Marty inside.
dug floating last ourselves three trying
It's desperation. We know we've dug ourselves a pretty big hole. We weren't trying to get out of it. We were just floating along. The last three games, for sure, were a big step.
nice rust year
It's nice to know that there is not too much rust after a year off,
handled jay needed outside people stayed steady
It's been unbelievable how Jay has handled this summer. There were not a whole lot of people outside the organization that thought he could get it all done. But he stayed steady and got done what he needed to do.
emotional level tough
It was tough to get our emotional level up all day.
fix
It's scarier up around the eyes. The mouth, at least, you can fix it.
anxious happy
It's been an anxious time, for sure, and they're all very happy and very proud.
hard proven start win
The hard part for us was getting in. We feel now we can start over here and try to do something. We have proven we can win in the playoffs.