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.
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.
best enter hospital precaution
We thought the best precaution was to have him enter the hospital for observation.
good hoping
We want to give him a good look here, see what he can do. We're hoping he can show us something.
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.
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.
apparent became came closed heading
I was surprised. He came in, he closed the door. ... It became pretty apparent once he started (talking) that he was heading down that path.
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.
team
Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.
sign talked
We've talked about it. If we sign anyone, it will be for the upcoming season, not this one.
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.