Keith Tkachuk
Keith Tkachuk
Keith Matthew Tkachukis an American former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey Leaguein a 19-year career with the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers, retiring in 2010. He is one of only five American-born players to score 500 goals, and is the sixth American player to score 1,000 points and is considered to be one of the greatest U.S.-born players in NHL history...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth28 March 1972
CityMelrose, MA
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We knew that this goalie kicks out rebounds, so we wanted to shoot from all angles and drive to the net, and it worked on the first goal. You can't let a team skate like that.
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I think what happened in the third period against Latvia carried over. We just skated to the puck and controlled the game. We pinned them in their own zone; we were buzzing pretty good out there.
great half lose period teams
There are so many great teams here that if you take a period off or a half a period off, you're going to lose the game.
extremely guys period ready
You know what, the first period killed us; we weren't ready for it. But you've got to give those guys credit. They come at you extremely hard, and they give you nothing. We weren't ready to do that.
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We have to. I think teams took us for granted and we jumped on teams early. We just have to keep doing the same no matter who's in the lineup.
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We're up 2-0 and they play almost the entire second period in our end.
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We've done it before with guys hurt and guys traded. For while there we were consistent and now it seems we're getting away from that. We've got to stop it right now because that was an embarrassing result tonight.
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We'll have a game plan and I'm sure they have a game plan. If it's a one-year deal where they pick up the option, there's other options besides that.
We're not going to quit. We're going to keep going after everybody.
against hang longer team tough
We've got a young team, and we have to be a tough team to play against on the road. I think the longer we hang around in games, the better we play, and I think that's shown.
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He was good, but we had chances ... not in the first (period), but in the second in the third. But with this lineup, we've got to play extremely hard every single shift.
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I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.
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We've gone into tough buildings and won, or at least gone to overtime. It's a credit to our system and the way we play. That's what you want to establish as a road team. We can't get rattled.
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He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.