Craig Patrick
Craig Patrick
Craig Patrickis an American former hockey player, coach and general manager, the son of Lynn Patrick and the grandson of Lester Patrick. During the 1980 Winter Olympics, Patrick was the Assistant General Manager and Assistant Coach under Herb Brooks for the United States men's national ice hockey team, which won the gold medal and defeated the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice". From 1989 to 2006, Patrick was the General Manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins where he oversaw back-to-back...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth20 May 1946
best enter hospital precaution
We thought the best precaution was to have him enter the hospital for observation.
camp chance coming early win
It's like it was back in the early '90s when we were coming to camp with a chance to win a championship every year.
good hockey players worked
It's good for hockey, and it's good for his area. It's interesting, the way it worked out. It's good to have this many hockey players in town.
great move name
It was real simple. I surrendered right away. It's great to have his name on a contract, and now, we can move forward.
sign talked
We've talked about it. If we sign anyone, it will be for the upcoming season, not this one.
giving goals good lead starting wish
We're starting to get used to each other and play more like the way I thought we'd be able to play. But we get a good lead and we're still giving up some goals I wish we wouldn't give up.
believe bit chance city coaches good meet prospects series summer time town training
We did this for the first time in the summer of 2003, and we believe it's a good way for some of our young prospects to come into town and get to know a little bit about our organization and our city before training camp. We'll put them through a series of tests, and they'll also have a chance to meet with our coaches and trainers.
affect bring decisions future guys hockey operation people situation six spring terms time
We're down to a bare-bone operation in terms of players. After this weekend, we'll be down to 12 forwards, six defensemen and two goalies, and any time you get in that situation and have an injury, you can bring people up (from the American Hockey League) on emergency, and it doesn't affect what's going on down there in terms of being able to go back and play in the playoffs. That's important for us because we want to see these guys as much as we can this spring and make some decisions on them for the future and for our lineup in the future.
waiting
We're done negotiating. We're just waiting for the answer.
passed problems
We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.
ability believe seen year
You're going to do it his way or not going to play, and from what I've seen this year we need that. We all believe we have the ability here.
adjust players third time work
This is our third time around at it. It's going to work this time. The players will adjust and there will be a different game. Definitely.
great locker people special
Definitely, in John's case. It's very special to get these kind of people ? not just great players, but great people in the locker room.
good hard played staff
I thought they did very, very well. The whole staff did. They had a lot of energy, they played hard and they did a good job.