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
They tell me I could rest two weeks and maybe play two, three, four games. And then I'd have to sit out another two weeks to let it heal. I can't afford to do that the rest of the year. I might as well get it fixed now and be ready for the playoff stretch.
This could be a good thing for us.
It was definitely a big relief to get that lead again, to keep it and go all the way.
It says a lot about the players in this room, the organization. Going through all the injuries that we have this year, I don't think anybody could have predicted that we'd be here today at 104 points and 49 wins.
Probably after the Olympics I should be close to returning.
You see all those players moving around and, for the most part, we've kept the same team. It's going to be very different when we start playing all these other teams.
He's a little bit of a disturber out there. He's got that edge.
I knew at some point if they gave us a chance to stick together we were going to get going together.
My eyes were big when I was left alone. What a feeling it is to score a goal in overtime of a playoff game.
I never saw him. It was careless on my part, but it wasn't on purpose. Sometimes that's going to happen.
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For us, Ottawa has always been the team to beat. Not only in our division or in our conference, but in the entire NHL.
For us, it's the road to proving that we belong in the playoffs, that we can play with the best teams. We did really well the last time we played Ottawa, and now it's the next challenge. It's to prove that can play very well in Ottawa as well.
It's just frustration. We don't know where to go anymore. We don't know what is a penalty, and what's not. We're trying to bang some rebounds in, just going to the net. I paid the price for trying to score a little too hard.