Brad Richards
Brad Richards
Bradley Glenn "Brad" Richardsis a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre in the National Hockey League. Richards was drafted in the third round, 64th overall, by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and played for the Lightning, New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth2 May 1980
against beat bitterness canadian country except gold good level mean played pride teams win
There are a lot of good teams there and just because you put on a Canadian jersey, it doesn't mean you're going to win. But that's the pride our country has. Those are the expectations and there's bitterness when you don't get it done. There's nothing else we wanted to do except win the gold medal. And a lot of countries, they just want to beat Canada. They played at a whole new level against us.
good third tie win
We're good enough to win anywhere. We had a 2-2 tie in the third and we didn't get it done.
beat excuses head high lost ok playing playoffs pushing question
There are no excuses not to win, this is the playoffs for us. You don't ever want to say it was OK when we lost the game, but I'm not going to beat myself up or question how we've been playing of late. We're going to keep our head high and keep pushing the way we've been going of late.
change happen players sooner team teams
That's the way change is. You see it in different teams and players around the league. It will happen to us someday, probably sooner than we can ever imagine. Every team evolves and that's the way teams go.
against forgetting good hockey ourselves proves quality teams three
That's three shutouts against quality teams that are in the playoffs. It proves to ourselves that we are a good hockey team. I think we started forgetting that a little bit.
johnny kept quite
Johnny kept us in it. He was quite impressive.
fun good hanging infiltrate playoffs secluded together
That can't infiltrate your room, it can't get into people's heads. If one person doesn't believe, this is not going to work. We've been loose, we've been secluded and having a good time. Everyone has been hanging out. This is so much fun to be part of the playoffs and we know how much fun it is for two months. We are all together having fun and we are just going to try to keep battling.
criticized marty wrong
Marty got criticized for all the wrong reasons. Marty always cared. Marty was still Marty inside.
bad bruise
I think it's just a bad bruise for now.
coming emphasized priority season teams
From the start, we made it a priority to play well at home. We emphasized before the season that teams coming in here weren't going to have it easy.
This wasn't pretty but it was a big win.
percent step win
This was not a step backward. If we play like that every night, we're going to win 80 percent of our games.
confidence happy proud roll
We're on a roll here right now and we didn't want to end that. To come back from 2-0, it's huge. It's so much more confidence for the guys. We're happy and proud of ourselves.
bit couple games gone lull played slowly ways
We've done this before where we've played a couple (good) games and gone into a lull again. (But) I think we're slowly getting a little bit more arrogance, a little more confidence. We still have a long ways to go ... but it's something we haven't had in a long time.