Daniel Briere
Daniel Briere
Daniel Jean-Claude "Danny" Brièreis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes, and also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. Internationally, Brière won four gold medals in as many appearances with Team Canada at the 1994 World U18 Championships, 1997 World Junior Championships, and the 2003 and 2004 World Championships...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth6 October 1977
CityGatineau, Canada
I don't want to get too excited but we're very happy with the win.
You can see it in his look and his preparations. He's not looking around for answers anymore. He just knows what he has to do. It comes from maturity, it comes from playing well lately. It's confidence.
It's not something we look forward to, going down two goals, but that happened three times on the road the last couple of weeks. To win those games is pretty impressive.
I expect (the same) kind of treatment in the playoffs. For the good of the game, (everybody) expects the penalties to be called the same way.
It fired up our will when we heard things like the more the series went on, the tougher it would go for us. Those were just motivation points for us.
It doesn't really bother us. They gotta give good reasons to their fans why they've been losing to us this year.
I'm still far away from coming back. I can't really push off yet or take off in a hurry. Pivoting gives me a hard time still. But it's just fun to be back around the guys and having the chance to skate with them a little bit.
I think we're sitting in a good position. I don't think we have a team right now to win the Stanley Cup, to be honest with you, but we have a lot of room under the salary cap, and we can make some moves.
It makes us angry but there's nothing we can do about it. The only positive is that Tucker is going to play golf and we're going to the playoffs.
We don't think it's going to be easy, and we don't think that we are too good. We are a team that relies on our work ethic to win games, and that's what we have to continue to do.
To be honest with you, I just think it was time for Miro to move on. Miro's a great hockey player, but I don't think he had any chemistry with the players that we have here.
You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs.
Throughout the season we were expecting the calls to go down, the referees to stop calling the new rules. They kept it going all year.
We don't have a problem with predictions that put us in the last three in the conference,