Chris Drury
Chris Drury
Christopher Ellis Druryis a retired American professional ice hockey player who most recently played with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Drury is a Hobey Baker Award-winner with Boston University, a Calder Trophy winner with the Colorado Avalanche, a Stanley Cup champion with the Avalanche, a two-time Olympic silver medalist with the United States, and a former captain of the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers. As a child, he also won the Little League Baseball World...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth20 August 1976
CityTrumbull, CT
He (Miller) is so mentally tough. Despite not having any NHL playoff games under his belt, he'll respond well.
That was a pretty good effort right from the start. We've come a long way. The beatings they put on us were the low point, but we responded and stuck together, and to come out with a game like that is pretty nice to see.
There would be games where he would absolutely dominate and then he'd come to the locker room and tell us how poorly he had played.
I think it starts with goaltending. They've been giving us great games and we have a lot of confidence to play our game and do the things we need to do offensively.
They've been skating the heck out of him. Obviously, a game is different than practice, but he's been working extremely hard. I wouldn't be surprised if he slides right in and does well right off the bat.
Our schedule is extremely condensed, but I think a lot of it is just keeping your focus, especially if you get on a good roll. You've just got to focus each and every game and get prepared mentally and physically for the next outing, because there's not much time between games.
There would be games he dominated and afterward he'd be saying how bad he played. He's never satisfied.
These European teams are well-oiled machines. They get up by a goal and it's lockdown time.
It was gutsy. There's another word I could use for that, but it's gutsy to come down and have the patience and the presence to pull off a move like that on Dom.
I'm sure I'm not going to be sitting around, telling stories about it.
Personally, I think he's the real deal. I've skated with him and have seen what he can do. But it's hard where everywhere he goes there's a press conference. It would be good for people to let him be a kid in the league and be a rookie and let him adjust as he goes.
I think it's hard to project what a guy's going to do, one year out of college, one year in pro. It's a lot of pressure on a kid. But overall he's handled it extremely well.
It was kind of a strange 10 or 15 minutes. Whoever we got, we got. Either way, I think we'll be ready.
It's great when he's on because he can find the net. As he gets older, I think he'll be less streaky and just more consistent. But he's doing all right as a streaky guy right now anyway.