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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You could look at it two different ways. You could look at it as being relieved, we're moving on. But for guys like me, the way I look at it, it's frustrating because you'd rather find a way to get back on the ice and figure it out.
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He's a very skilled guy; we always knew that.
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That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.
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He knows how much we expect out of him every night, and he's been great on and off the ice for us.
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He was just a dynamic player, and he didn't get enough credit for his defensive play. He was great in his own zone.
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It's sort of been one after the other.
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It's one of those nights, the last couple have been. We make a mistake and it ends up in our net. That's just the bottom line. There's no real reason or rhyme for it. They scored on their good opportunities and we haven't even come close.
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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.
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That's part of it as you get older, and unrestricted. No offense, I'd trade all of us, too.
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I'm sure he will. He had a lot of respect in St. Louis.
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He looked good. We had a pretty short practice but I thought he looked really good.
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They're getting the chance of a lifetime. It's not going to come along like this every year for them, because next year the team might be different. This is their time to show themselves, see what they can do.
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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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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.