106 ordspråk av Brad Richards
Brad Richards
That's three shutouts against quality teams that are in the playoffs. It proves to ourselves that we are a good hockey team. I think we started forgetting that a little bit.
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The goal deflated us, but we didn't grab a hold of ourselves; we went the other way and it snowballed on us. It's a time of the game where we have to help Johnny out and get back in the game, and we didn't do that tonight and that's why it went that way. It's not good enough right now.
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The guys are all back here in Tampa and we're real excited, ... The city's been unbelievable, very enthusiastic. It's pretty cool to see, the atmosphere hasn't changed.
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The hard part for us was getting in. We feel now we can start over here and try to do something. We have proven we can win in the playoffs.
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There are a lot of good teams there and just because you put on a Canadian jersey, it doesn't mean you're going to win. But that's the pride our country has. Those are the expectations and there's bitterness when you don't get it done. There's nothing else we wanted to do except win the gold medal. And a lot of countries, they just want to beat Canada. They played at a whole new level against us.
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There are no excuses not to win, this is the playoffs for us. You don't ever want to say it was OK when we lost the game, but I'm not going to beat myself up or question how we've been playing of late. We're going to keep our head high and keep pushing the way we've been going of late.
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There was a reason we didn't want a salary cap that low, especially for our team,
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There was a reason we didn't want a salary cap that low, especially for our team. We're going to have live with it. We've already lost one of the best goalies in the world ? which we could have signed without a cap ? and now we don't know what's going to happen with our Hart Trophy winner.
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There were a lot of bouncing pucks, but I don't think we were that sharp. Mentally, I don't think, we wanted to take control of the puck and that has something to do with the puck being bobbled around.
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They all play hard and they play harder against Canada. We're not going to take that game off and pretend it's a practice.
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They are very aggressive. Teams are going to know that I play back there, I'm sure they'll put more pressure on me. Today at practice I skated up front so I think we're looking to take a little pressure off that situation. But I'm comfortable in both spots.
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They came at us pretty hard and it was a good pace, and you could tell they were ready to play the game. They get the early power play and you're looking to kill it off. To get a goal was a boost, and you saw us build on that to get a 4-1 lead.
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They probably had more chances on our power plays than we had.
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This is great. We talked about getting closure. I think we all needed that. It's been a while. Not that we're sick of hearing of it, but we've got to move on. It's not our Cup anymore. We saw it tonight for the last time, and now we'll fight like the other teams to try to get it.
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This is the competition we're used to playing, and this is the game we're used to playing.
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