Rick Tocchet
Rick Tocchet
Richard Tocchet, nicknamed The Rocket, born April 9, 1964, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey Leaguefor the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals and Phoenix Coyotes. He is currently an assistant coach to Mike Sullivan of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning for two seasons. During the 2010 playoffs he served as an analyst on Flyers Postgame...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth9 April 1964
barry confidence head last players playing scream smith teams
When your confidence is down the last thing you want to do is scream at the players too much. But we were playing tentative and (associate head coach) Barry Smith and I had to get on them a little bit. We were on our heels, and championship teams play on their toes, not on their heels.
guys period pulling rope
We got embarrassed. We know it. We got our (expletive) kicked. (Today's) a different game. Hopefully, in the first period we'll have enough guys pulling the rope the same way.
afraid answer best phone
You know, he's afraid to answer the phone sometimes. It's like, 'What's next? The best thing for him is being back in the rink. He's comfortable again.
gave guys tonight
We were on our nubs tonight and the guys just gave it their all.
easier knows normal
When you get things back to normal, it's a lot easier for him (Gretzky) if he knows everything is normal back here.
approach guys work
We'll go with guys who want to work and want to play. That's the way we're going to have to approach it from here on in.
bored mind needs tells
Janet tells me he's bored out of his mind. He needs something to do.
blue four outside remember third traded
I remember when I got traded there. I think my third game, I had four assists and I never made it outside our blue line. I still don't know how I got four assists that night.
block colorado early guys hard lead leadership night somebody takes
I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot.
comment football time
I got a summons the other day about (it). It's not a hockey-related issue, it's a football thing. And at this time I can't comment any further.
change game slow struggling
He was struggling early. I made the change to slow the game down.
asked
He didn't play a lot but he did what we asked him to do.
mind scoring stress ton tried win worry
We've got to try to win 2-1 right now. That's our mind-set. That's what we tried to stress today. (We said) 'Don't worry about scoring a ton of goals, just try to win 2-1' and we did.
known needed nice stood teammates
In your career, it's nice to be known that you stood up for your teammates but it's also nice that when your team needed a goal, you were put out in those situations.