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
bring game nice people plan schedule start successful
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.
five four games night ourselves prepare start tomorrow
Tomorrow night is the start of four games in five nights, and we have to prepare ourselves for that.
beat couple elite games last lost start teams
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.
build definitely
It's something I definitely want to build on.
figuring learning roles rules
Everyone's going in on a whole new learning curve, ... Figuring out what the rules are going to be, what the roles are going to be with the new coach, and that's all going to come pretty fast.
plays power
It was huge. Some pretty important power plays were killed.
buy ray whitney
Not only were we not able to get Pavel signed, we also had to buy out Darren McCarty , Ray Whitney and Derian Hatcher ,
four points took
After they took four points from us back home, we wanted to come back and answer, which we were able to do.
extent laugh
I laugh at them. I think they're pretty funny, but that's about the extent of it.
affected changes definitely free ken manager money quite step though tied
It's definitely affected us a lot, ... It kind of handcuffed Detroit. We had a lot of money tied into a lot of players. (General manager Ken Holland) had to step up and make some changes to free up some money. Even though we did, we didn't quite get enough.
couple firing games goose last
The last couple games we were firing goose eggs, and that's something you don't want to do going into your elimination game.
fun
It went well. It was a lot of fun.
game master played playing seen stirring talking tricks
We had the master of the manipulators, playing for Scotty (Bowman) . We've seen all the tricks before. The game is going to be played on the ice. Not talking or stirring things up.
exciting kids rules
Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.