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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He was one of the last guys to get in town, ... It's going to be nice. We have a four-hour bus ride, and Hank's going to probably take the most abuse on the bus, and rightfully so. We're just happy to have him back. He's such a great kid and such a great hockey player. He's going to play a huge role for the Detroit Red Wings over the next four years for sure.
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Guys that can skate are going to enjoy this.
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We're back where we should be. This is always a game when the schedule comes out where you take a look at who you're playing, and it's always nice. It's something that people plan to bring their New Year's in on. It's always a nice celebration, a nice atmosphere. To make it a successful night, it's up to us to go out and start it off right.
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We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.
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We feel good about what we've accomplished so far, but there's still a lot of the season left.
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We have to play to these new rules, but we play to the system implemented by the coaches. Hopefully for the sake of the game, the coaches want to open it up.
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We've lost two in a row, and we have to respond. To beat the elite teams in the league, it's got to be start to finish. We haven't done that the last couple of games and that's why we've lost.
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We've done a lot of good things but a complete game, we haven't done that. That's something that bothers everybody in this dressing room.
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Yeah, now we're on the scoreboard watching. We're realizing there's probably about four or five teams that are going to keep flip-flopping from here right on up to the end of the regular season. For us, you certainly watch that but the one thing we want to make sure is that we're concentrating on what this team does.
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Tomorrow night is the start of four games in five nights, and we have to prepare ourselves for that.
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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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He's such a great guy and he wants to be there for everybody and that's what made him so popular in Detroit.
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He's a guy who can play a lot of minutes. He had a great year two years ago. We hope he's back. We hope it all works out and he can be part of this hockey club. But he has to make a decision on what's best for him and his family. We just hope it's here playing in Detroit.
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I laugh at them. I think they're pretty funny, but that's about the extent of it.