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
johnny kept quite
Johnny kept us in it. He was quite impressive.
found time ways year
We found a way ... that's what we've been doing. We've found ways to win, and this is the time of year you have to do it.
building confidence felt good great hard might starts time weeks year
We haven't had too many weeks where we felt good and confident. It's been up and down and up and down and up and down all year. This is the time of year where confidence starts building and that's what we want to do. We're still not there yet. It might look great and it is better, but it's a lot of hard work.
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.
against guard lose win
We've done this before. We have to guard against win two, lose two, win two, lose one. That's where we are at right now.
good great ran sloppy third together
We were sloppy from the start. That's why we were down 4-1. We put together a very good third but they've got a great goalie and we just ran out of time.
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.
sharp
I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,
eighth happened team worry
We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.
explain fragile wish
We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.
control figure game power until work
We've got to come to work and try to figure out how to take control of a game with our power play. Until we do that it's going to be a dogfight every night.
longer took
When you are in, you are in, it doesn't matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we are in.
hearing obvious power sick together
We all know what to do. We've all been together long enough to know what to do and what makes the power play work. We're just not doing it. It's the obvious thing and I'm sick of it. We're all sick of hearing it.
games grab hold sure
Those two games we have to grab a hold of it. It's not the end of the world yet. We just have to make sure we nip it right away.