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...
expect great ice knows
He knows how much we expect out of him every night, and he's been great on and off the ice for us.
early expect face letting lost people year
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.
expect hurt next players playing playoffs six weeks
We really battled back for about six weeks there. We didn't expect to make the playoffs but we had a lot of players playing well for next year. And then we got hurt again.
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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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I think you've got to look at teams like Carolina and the New York Rangers . A year ago nobody expected them to be where are today and all of a sudden they're Stanley Cup contenders, especially Carolina.
refused shoot
That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.
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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.
everybody gave remember success
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've played a lot of games in January and up to this point. And we'll play a lot after the break. So it's important for guys to get the rest.
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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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We got into a little bit of a pond hockey game there, and that can get you in trouble.
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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.
chance ourselves simple work
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.
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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.