Daniel Briere
Daniel Briere
Daniel Jean-Claude "Danny" Brièreis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes, and also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. Internationally, Brière won four gold medals in as many appearances with Team Canada at the 1994 World U18 Championships, 1997 World Junior Championships, and the 2003 and 2004 World Championships...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth6 October 1977
CityGatineau, Canada
We believe we have good enough speed to take advantage of teams with the new rules,
With the referees coming into the room before the game and explaining the rules,
You lose a couple games and you think it's bad luck and it'll come back, but with such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything again and make sure we make the adjustments before the playoffs. I really meant it when I said this will make us a better team.
You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs.
We'll know more when they open me up.
We don't have a problem with predictions that put us in the last three in the conference,
When you're so close to playing, it's going to be frustrating if I don't have time to get into a game before the break.
We definitely feel like we let Brian and Scott down. We weren't sharp. The puck was bouncing. We were losing control. We weren't executing like we usually do.
They said they would let me know after the surgery, but we're looking at eight weeks at least.
They tell me I could rest two weeks and maybe play two, three, four games. And then I'd have to sit out another two weeks to let it heal. I can't afford to do that the rest of the year. I might as well get it fixed now and be ready for the playoff stretch.
All you try to do is get open. He's one of the few guys who will be able to find you anywhere.
That's why we're a good team. We keep finding ways to win and there's no doubt it doesn't matter who scores. ... The depth of our team is what makes the difference and it showed tonight.
That's huge mentally, not just the two points in the standings.
You see all those players moving around and, for the most part, we've kept the same team. It's going to be very different when we start playing all these other teams.