Kris Draper
Kris Draper
Kristopher Bruce "Kris" Draperis a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current special assistant to the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, the team with which he played 17 seasons for during his 20-year National Hockey Leagueplaying career...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth24 May 1971
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You have to really pay attention. He expects us to be very businesslike, that's how he is, and we have to respond to that. It's going to be a little bit of an adjustment.
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So you realize that our division just got that much tougher with the upgrades that all these teams made. They've turned themselves into some great hockey clubs.
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That's what Mike has been preaching to us all year. Get the puck to the net, get guys to the net. During the regular season he was preaching that's how you score playoff goals.
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I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what we've heard about the way it is in Edmonton for the playoffs ... it's pretty special for a Canadian kid to be part of that.
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You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.
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It was an ugly type of goal and Brad had a cheeky grin on his face, but it was what we needed.
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Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,
shooting specialty talked teams
One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.
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Chris Simon just sucker-punched somebody in the face!
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Let's hope we don't hear the word 'trap' anymore,
adjust seems specialty
It seems there's going to be a lot of specialty teams. Basically, how are we going to adjust to it is what it comes down to.
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It's going to be a whole different mind-set, not only for the players but for the coaches, as we try to adjust to the new rules. Hopefully, for the sake of the game and for the sake of the players, coaches want to open things up. Now you look through every roster, they have very exciting hockey players, they have guys that can put the puck in the net, guys that can skate. Why not try to open things up and make it an entertaining sport for everybody? I think that's going to have to be the case.
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It's going to really open up the game, make the game a lot more entertaining. Training camp this year is going to be more important than previous camps and the exhibition games are going to be very important to get a grasp of how the refs are going to call things.
For me, 03-04 ... was it 03-04 or 02-03?