Dallas Drake
Dallas Drake
Dallas James Drakeis a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger in the National Hockey League who last played for the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, Drake played for the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes, and St. Louis Blues. Drake played his college hockey at Northern Michigan University...
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It's one of those nights. They scored on their good opportunities and we didn't even come close.
bottom couple ends good last mistake mistakes reason rhyme
It's one of those nights, the last couple have been. We make a mistake and it ends up in our net. That's just the bottom line. There's no real reason or rhyme for it. They scored on their good opportunities and we haven't even come close.
trade
That's part of it as you get older, and unrestricted. No offense, I'd trade all of us, too.
good hockey north
It wasn't a very good day for hockey in North America.
sort
It's sort of been one after the other.
allowed body call five grab hook instinct position
It's more positional play now. Before, if you got beat, your first instinct was to grab and hook and in most cases, you were allowed to get away with that, especially when you were short-handed. Now, if you do that, they call it, and you're down five on three. Your body position has to be a lot better.
knowing lie nobody tough year
It's been tough and nobody in here's going to lie that it hasn't been a tough year for all of us, not knowing what's going to happen. But we have no part in that, everything in that is out of our control. All we do is play hockey.
ice puts realize step until
Until you get to step on the ice with him every day, you don't realize how much he puts into it.
difference forefront hockey losing stepped winning
You look at some of how young our forwards are, but they've really stepped to the forefront and made the difference in us winning and losing hockey games. And our goaltending has been out of this world.
chance ourselves simple work
We're not very pretty to watch, but we work really hard. We keep it real simple and that's the only way we give ourselves a chance every night.
along chance might next team time year
They're getting the chance of a lifetime. It's not going to come along like this every year for them, because next year the team might be different. This is their time to show themselves, see what they can do.
against elevate helps loves playing rivalry
That's going to be a rivalry going on for a long time. Jacks loves that, I think he loves playing against him. It helps him elevate his game.
carolina cup expected nobody rangers stanley sudden teams today year york
I think you've got to look at teams like Carolina and the New York Rangers . A year ago nobody expected them to be where are today and all of a sudden they're Stanley Cup contenders, especially Carolina.
knew skilled
He's a very skilled guy; we always knew that.