Kris Draper
Kris Draper
Kristopher Bruce "Kris" Draperis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current special assistant to the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, the team with which he played 17 seasons for during his 20-year National Hockey Leagueplaying career...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth24 May 1971
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We had the master of the manipulators, playing for Scotty (Bowman) . We've seen all the tricks before. The game is going to be played on the ice. Not talking or stirring things up.
bit expects pay respond
You have to really pay attention. He expects us to be very businesslike, that's how he is, and we have to respond to that. It's going to be a little bit of an adjustment.
games meant playing playoffs
We've been playing some games here for a while now that haven't really meant anything standing-wise. Now everything's over and done with. The playoffs are coming.
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Either way we're going out west. There's nothing easy about that. First round, right off the hop, it's pretty demanding travel-wise and that's something that we realize but that's just unfortunate, us being in the Eastern Time zone and playing in the Western Conference.
hear hope word
Let's hope we don't hear the word 'trap' anymore,
love
Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,
shooting specialty talked teams
One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.
brad cheeky goal grin type ugly
It was an ugly type of goal and Brad had a cheeky grin on his face, but it was what we needed.
changes coach coaches rules
Down low, it's going to be a whole different mindset. The coaches are going to have to coach to the new rules and that's going to make for a lot of changes in philosophy.
reason won
Cujo is the reason we won the game,
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I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what we've heard about the way it is in Edmonton for the playoffs ... it's pretty special for a Canadian kid to be part of that.
guess happened left players time
A lot of players have changed. I know (Colorado) doesn't have a lot of players left from the '90s teams. A lot of what happened was a long time ago. I guess it's a little different now.
almost compete puts
You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.
division great hockey realize teams themselves tougher turned
So you realize that our division just got that much tougher with the upgrades that all these teams made. They've turned themselves into some great hockey clubs.