Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts
Gary R. Robertsis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor the Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning. Renowned for his physical fitness during his career, Roberts has become a high performance trainer for players at all levels of the sport...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth23 May 1966
CityToronto, Canada
game looking looks meaningful time wished wondering
We wished it would have been a more meaningful game. We were looking at that game a long time ago wondering if it would mean something. Now it looks like it's going to mean ninth, 10th, 11th place, unfortunately.
against game guys happy playing puck tough war
The puck drops, you got to play your game. It's still tough playing against your buddies, guys that you went to war with those years here in Toronto. It was a tough game for me to play. I'm happy it's over. I'm not happy we lost.
banging bit bodies creating game good joe man spend style time traffic
We're different guys, for sure. I'm a little more bullheaded, probably, and have to be because of the style of game I play. My game's a little different than Joe's. Joe is a real good face-off man and a good shot. Me, I spend a little more time in the traffic banging bodies and creating a little bit of havoc.
game lost obviously played
Obviously we played all right. We lost a one-goal game in double-overtime.
ahead bad everybody game happened hockey known sitting time tried
It happened pretty quickly. We're sitting up here for a hockey game and they're going through a hurricane. If we'd known ahead of time it was going to be that bad we'd have tried to get everybody out of there.
against focus games team worry
Having two more games against Tampa, that's the team we're going to have to focus on. Just worry about our wins, our games, and see what we get.
best found game hard progress
We're making some real progress. We didn't have our best game but we battled hard and found a way to win, and that's what we need to do down the stretch.
batteries focus game great monday sunday tampa team
Tampa is the team we have to focus on. They're a great team and they are not going to give us anything. We have a day off Sunday an we'll recharge the batteries for a big game Monday night.
doubt nights
This was fun; no doubt about it. We haven't had too many nights like this.
dependent entire event industry running totally
You have an organization running an entire industry that is totally dependent upon one event in one men's sport.
injuring left reason
fiddling around right now to try and find a reason why I keep injuring my left groin.
camp definitely excited guys joe looking meeting older realize
We were looking at the camp roster during our (team) meeting (the other) night, Joe and I, and I didn't see many guys (born) in the 1960s. There were some '80s, some '85s. You realize how much older you are, but we're definitely excited to be here and be part of this team.
including wipe
I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.
nearly town work
Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,