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
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.
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.
dialogue everybody seeing team
I know we're having dialogue with everybody and seeing what's out there. We've had dialogue with just about every team one way or another.
quickly rather
Not necessarily. He does have to get it surgically repaired, and he is going to get it done rather quickly. We'll see how quickly he can come back.
talk
I'm not going to talk about our discussion.
anticipate deal hard might time worked
We were positioned well for what we had to deal with, and it's worked out very well. For the first time around in this, it was hard to really anticipate what might happen, but we're very, very pleased.
paper
We look pretty on paper but what are we? What are we? I don't know, but we're going to find out.
starting
We look pretty on paper, but what are we? We'll find out what we are, starting today.
begin brief days exercising expect matter period return
We expect that he will be able to begin exercising in a matter of days and return to the lineup in a brief period of time.
good hoping
We want to give him a good look here, see what he can do. We're hoping he can show us something.
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.
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.
pick sure
If we didn't pick up Sidney this year, I'm sure Kris would have been in our lineup.