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
waiting
We're done negotiating. We're just waiting for the answer.
best enter hospital precaution
We thought the best precaution was to have him enter the hospital for observation.
brings corps experience help move wealth
Jocelyn brings a wealth of experience to our goaltending corps and will help us tremendously as we move forward.
further group john presence productive proven strong
John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.
climb gain guys playing starting time
Guys are starting to gain a lot of confidence. Hopefully, it's time to climb up the ladder, and if we keep playing like this, we will.
days exact level medication medicine next process program test weeks
He's going to be an off-ice conditioning program for the next 10 days to two weeks and then he will be reevaluated after that. They are going to try and get the right level of medication that he needs. Medicine is not an exact science, so you have to test things and try them. They are in that process now.
moves nice
He made some nice moves on that play. That was great.
awful both everywhere gave great ice line meant stanley team top winning
He meant an awful lot to us, both on the ice and off. He had a great career, obviously, everywhere he was. But here, he solidified our team in the sense that he gave us a top two line person that made it a 1a and 1b situation, which no other team had at that time. He was very, very important to us winning our Stanley Cups.
chance hopefully next
Hopefully there's a chance of another one getting there next year, too.
future good job opportunity player playing possibly year
He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.
bottom help hockey line played winning
He's played well, but the bottom line is winning hockey games. We want to win hockey games, and hopefully, he can help us do that.
concerned irregular last left night period third trip
He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.
bothering decided hip hurt kept montreal since
He'd been complaining about his hip since Montreal. Actually, he had a little tightness there before, but in Montreal (on Jan. 4) he hurt it in practice. We didn't think it was that serious, but it kept bothering him and bothering him, so he decided to get an MRI done.
pick sure
If we didn't pick up Sidney this year, I'm sure Kris would have been in our lineup.