Richard Matvichuk
Richard Matvichuk
Richard Dorian Matvichukis a Canadian former National Hockey League defenseman and current head coach of the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League. He played 14 seasons with the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars, and the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...
dallas hopefully played role
I played that role in Dallas for many years. Hopefully I can do the same thing here that I did there.
feels tomorrow
I don't know. We'll see how everything feels tomorrow. We'll how it reacts tomorrow morning.
brad hard played plays
I played with Brad in Dallas. Back then he was up and coming. He plays hard every night.
aware guy respect
Obviously, you've got to respect a guy like that. When he's on the ice, you have to be aware of him.
fight game possession
It's still a man's game out there. You should still have to fight for possession on the ice.
case gets home ice obviously round teams top
Obviously we'd want to get up as (high) as we can in case one of the top teams gets eliminated, we get home ice (in Round 2).
guy job keeping third
Our forwards did an unbelievable job of keeping the third guy high.
known score thinking
That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.
everybody last looking obviously played playoff whom
They're obviously going to be like playoff games. The way things are looking right now, we don't know whom we're going to play in the playoffs. Everybody is so tight. ... It, for us, obviously has playoff implications and the way everybody has played the last two games, it's getting back to the way we should be playing.
chance four good spot
We think if we can get out of there with four points, we have a good chance of getting the spot from them.
penalty stay
We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.
fill guys jump
Those aren't guys you're going to replace. Myself, (Dan) McGillis and (Vladimir) Malakhov, we're going to fill in and jump into those boots.