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 games six stop
We scored six against Philly, but we've got to stop having these games where we're 1-1. We need more desperation offensively.
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.
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.
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.
against canada game hard harder pretend
They all play hard and they play harder against Canada. We're not going to take that game off and pretend it's a practice.
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.
everybody gets physical
To see him go out there and be physical like that, being a little guy, that gets everybody up.
chance hurt plays power
We had a chance to go up 2-0 or even 3-0 with some power plays and we couldn't do it -- that really hurt us.
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.
game huge
Every game is huge right now. We're going to get out of this.
full hockey late minutes played playing start
We've been playing better hockey of late at home. It's been a lot better than it was at the start of the year. We've been more consistent. We still haven't played a lot of full 60 minutes yet, but we're going to keep working on that.
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.
along everybody gets lost needed
We just got along great. It put you as part of a team. You needed everybody you had. That sometimes gets lost today.
bit game waiting
We (went) just a little bit back to where we were before this run. We started the game pretty good, but as the game went on, we were just waiting and hoping. We got off what (we do well). Don't know why. But that's what happens: a 2-1 loss.