Rob Blake
Rob Blake
Robert Bowlby Blakeis a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. He was originally drafted by the Kings in 1988, appearing in the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy and serving as team captain for five seasons in his initial 11-season stint with the club. In 2001, Blake was traded to the Colorado Avalanche and helped the team win their second...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth10 December 1969
CitySimcoe, Canada
We knew they were going to give it their best. They have a lot of character and a lot of veterans over there. We weren't up to the task. They are right back in this series.
We know he's very talented. We're asking a lot of him, but he's up to the task.
The regular season doesn't matter too much. But when you go into their building to start, it's going to be difficult. Their lineup is very solid from top to bottom.
(The Red Wings) are the one team in the league that challenges you with puck possession. We didn't match them today in intensity.
We have to get points in every game. We'll take this point and we're not satisfied, but we'll definitely take it after being down with 7 minutes left.
We finally had to battle to win a game. I think we've been getting away with just outscoring teams and it's kind of caught us the last two weeks. We haven't been working nearly hard enough to win games.
You don't even worry about what happened at the end of the season. Our whole focus is on Dallas this week. We'll go over their game plan and our game plan against them. As far as the regular season, that's forgotten and we go on.
We needed to get something there. It was big. We could have used that one.
We had a quick one early on but the second one was a major one, it lasted a minute. The big difference in their 5-on-3? They made the play.
When you win some games in a row, the panic gets out of the way. We know David's going to shut it down for us now.
We'll take it. When we come back, we've got teams that we play that we can take advantage of, and that's what we need to do.
We'll take his 'OK' if that's how he's going to be OK. You can see he's getting it back.
He's our guy, he's our leader, we're 100 percent behind him. He's not any different now. He walks into the room just like he did four years ago, puts the players at ease and away we go.
Honestly, it's not a distraction to us whatsoever. We're going over there for two weeks to bring back a gold medal.