Dallas Drake
Dallas Drake
Dallas James Drakeis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger in the National Hockey League who last played for the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, Drake played for the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes, and St. Louis Blues. Drake played his college hockey at Northern Michigan University...
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It's more positional play now. Before, if you got beat, your first instinct was to grab and hook and in most cases, you were allowed to get away with that, especially when you were short-handed. Now, if you do that, they call it, and you're down five on three. Your body position has to be a lot better.
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He's your marquee player. He's a guy they can still build around and he's a guy that can still produce in terms of a lot of goals and points when he's healthy.
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There's going to be a lot of relief I'm sure for a lot of people around here. It's taken a while, but it will be good for everybody in the long run if they can get this sorted out and have a good summer.
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He said 'Guys, I apologize for the situation I put you in, I put everyone in a bad spot a little bit. We didn't expect much from him, we were just happy he was back.
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Early in the year where we lost 11 or 12 in a row, there were times when I didn't want to show my face in public. It was frustrating. You feel like you're letting a lot of people down and you expect so much more out of yourself and from the organization.
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The hardest thing to do sometimes going down the stretch, especially when we're not going to make the playoffs, is to focus. It's easy to say that we've got nothing to play for. But our young kids have been great, trying hard every night to win.
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Obviously, winning makes everybody feel better about themselves. We're not that high yet, but we had a good week.
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Unfortunately, I'm one of the guys that gets too emotional. So I've got to learn to pull the reins back a little bit. Sometimes I say things I shouldn't say. I'm going to try and get better in that area, not yell at the refs too much.
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The Phoenix game the other night had 27 penalties in it, so that's pretty much the whole game somebody's on the power play. Believe it or not, you almost have got to forget about the score and just try and play the game as best you can with the new rule changes. I know that's hard to think about it that way, but you've got to teach yourself to adjust to the new rules as quickly as possible.
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We've got to get back to remember what we did to give us success when we were winning. What gave us success was everybody contributed, it wasn't one or two guys.
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We got into a little bit of a pond hockey game there, and that can get you in trouble.
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Until you get to step on the ice with him every day, you don't realize how much he puts into it.
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You look at some of how young our forwards are, but they've really stepped to the forefront and made the difference in us winning and losing hockey games. And our goaltending has been out of this world.
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We're not very pretty to watch, but we work really hard. We keep it real simple and that's the only way we give ourselves a chance every night.