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
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.
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.
achieved based gone guys level played
He hasn't achieved what we thought he'd achieve, based on the way he played two years ago. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of explanations for why things haven't gone that well this year. But a lot of guys haven't played up to the level that we'd anticipated.
behind great guys opportunity
He really hasn't had a great opportunity to play in Carolina. He's been behind some guys who are probably better than he is.
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.
calm careful feeling himself listen putting sure time until
That's the one thing we've got to be careful of -- him feeling the pressure, putting it on himself to get back on the ice. We've got to calm him down from here on out, we've got to make sure it's right. We've got to not listen to him this time and say, 'No, Mario, not until we say you're ready.
brings delighted game kevin passion second
We're delighted to have Kevin back where he belongs, with the Penguins. Kevin brings a passion to the game that is second to none.
chance gone next phone schedules sit talk talked town
We've talked on the phone and he's been doing things, but we haven't had a chance to sit down because we've been gone and he's been out of town so our schedules haven't meshed very well yet. We'll just talk about what I'd like to see him doing for this next little while.
talk
You know I don't talk about that stuff.
best
I would say he's been our best player, ... He's been very good.
pick sure
If we didn't pick up Sidney this year, I'm sure Kris would have been in our lineup.