Darcy Tucker
Darcy Tucker
Darcy Tuckeris a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player, who played most of his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A sixth round draft choice, Tucker began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens. Throughout his NHL career he also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche. Tucker was born in Castor, Alberta, but grew up in Endiang, Alberta...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth15 March 1975
CityCastor, Canada
heart play like-you
You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.
hockey want
You want it? Work for it.
stupid hockey thinking
I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.
wise opportunity different
Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.
games looking move trying win
We're looking ahead. We're trying to move up the standings as much as possible. We have some games before the break, and we need to win them all.
bouncing bury hard ice indicative puck worked
We worked hard at it tonight, but couldn't bury it. The ice was horrible, the puck was bouncing and that was indicative of the score.
guys veteran
There's a lot of veteran guys in the NHL laughing, right now,
After everything that was said about us golfing, we wanted to come in here and play well.
continues guys hard playoff respect work
Our guys have a lot of respect for Pat. He has done a lot for our organization and he continues to work hard into getting us into a playoff position.
blame fulfill goal job lies obviously understand
Our job was to get us into the playoffs. We didn't fulfill our goal and with that obviously comes disappointment. We understand that a lot of the blame lies with us.
corner hit looking puck quick room tried
I was looking at the puck in the corner and I don't know what happened. It hit my eyeball, so I tried to get to the room as quick as I could.
believe hope optimism teams
Optimism and hope are for teams that don't believe. We believe we can make the playoffs.
knee morning test
I'll test the knee in the morning and see how it goes.
against comment complain goes hard hit otherwise upset
I hit a guy. I didn't hit him with my knee. Like I said, I don't think I did anything in the wrong, so for me to comment otherwise goes against everything I believe. . . . Things like that happen. And you know what? To complain and get upset about those things, I find it hard to believe.