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
hard hockey plays practice proper stick together trying ways win work
We're trying to stick together here and do the proper things and do the proper plays and work hard in practice and find ways to win hockey games, but it's awfully frustrating when you lose.
club hockey integral lose parts tough
It's tough to lose two integral parts of your hockey club like that.
good hockey played playoff points tough
It's tough when you get to 90 points and don't get a playoff spot. We played some good hockey this year.
besides children family games heart hockey life ripped winning
It's heartbreaking to find out it's not going to happen. You live to the play in the playoffs. Besides having children and a family there is nothing better in life than winning hockey games in the playoffs. It's like having your heart 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.
bit break bringing clubs dressing efforts good gotten guys healthy hockey job olympics provide room worried
I'm not one bit worried about our hockey team. I think we have the guys in our dressing room to get the job done. We've gotten more healthy over the break and we have some guys having some good efforts in the Olympics who can provide something to the lineup that they're bringing to their hockey clubs over there.
expect game hockey leaders net opportunity puck win
I'm disappointed because I had an opportunity to win the game for us. As one of the leaders on the hockey club, I expect myself to put the puck in the net when I get the opportunity.
bacon deserved eddie last owed saved three time
Eddie saved our bacon so many times over the last two or three years. It's about time we owed him one back. That's something we deserved to get him, that's for sure.
whirlwind
Sometimes you have to go through a whirlwind to get stronger.
meetings score
We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.
conviction match passion scoring waves
We have to have some conviction in our game. They're going to come in waves and we have to match that intensity, match their passion for scoring goals.
good matter needed point points time
We needed the point. It didn't matter who scored. One point at a time isn't good enough. We need two points every night.
fragile gave lost mentally psyche seems
We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.