Mike Richards Quotations

We've become really good friends and living together, going through everything together, hanging out off the ice every day, it's nice to have him around. It's fun to have someone to share this with. My first season has been unbelievable as well, on and off the ice. It has been a whirlwind.

Peter will be missed. Yet, we strongly believe God has a new leader for us - one who will carry on the rich heritage established nearly 200 years ago and upheld with distinction by Peter Bradley.

Nine doesn't sound like a lot (of turnovers) but there weren't that many possessions in the game.

If we clean up our mistakes and mishaps, I think we have a good chance to be a very competitive team the rest of the way. I'm encouraged. I think this is going to be a good football team before all is said and done.

I have been kind of doing that move for the last 10 years of my life and decided to stick with what works.

He's a great leader. The whole team kind of knew we weren't going to give up. We kept going right to the end, and we had our best game in the last little bit.

He's a very demanding coach, whether you're young or old. He might be a litter harder on the younger guys because he's trying to teach us how to play the game, but you can't blame him.

He was actually sitting behind the tire store talking to a young lady when they arrested him.

I think it hits everyone hard when you lose the captain of your team. He's worked so hard to come back, to have his season cut short, you feel for him. To have a guy like that go out of your locker room is pretty tough.

I think it somewhat comes natural, ... You always want to know what's going on with your team. The biggest thing about leadership is being able to perform on the ice the way you want the guys to perform. Lead by example.

I saw it coming, I just tried to get my stick on it. I looked over my shoulder and I saw it just slowly going in. I just kept waiting and waiting.

Right when they got the first goal, I think it kind of slowed us down and we couldn't really recoup after that.

I think so. I think you can get into the game a lot more right off the bat when you get into it (physical play) more. You get up with the pace of the game faster.

We need a place around here we can skate without getting a ticket for it.

That was the turning point in the game. They had a huge energy swing off of that. Whenever you kill a key penalty like that at such a key time, it really gives a team momentum. They killed that off and seemed to build on it.

We had a lot of key guys out of the lineup and everybody stepped up.

Wait and see, it'll turn into a really good tan. It was more like story time. More laughs. When we were here, this happened and so forth. We really didn't discuss the hockey play a whole lot.

Two short-handed goals is unacceptable. You're not going to win any game if you allow that.

What people don't understand about him is how strong he is on the puck and how hard he is to get off the puck. You just have to try to contain him by putting him against the boards.

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

They said they think it?s a good idea.

It's exciting. You don't really know how to feel. But to hear the crowd and see the hats, you just try to enjoy the moment a little bit. When it's at the end of the game and you know you won, you can enjoy it a little more.

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The biggest thing no one knows about him is how strong he is on the puck, ... Yeah, he can put the puck in the net and makes great plays, but he?s really strong down low and not too many people see that.

It was a back-and-forth game and an exciting game.

It will be nice to see him. I watch him on TV sometimes. He's doing well. It's a younger team, he's playing 15 to 20 minutes a game. He's getting into more situations. All the best to him.

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I kind of had a move in mind and I went with it. I've kind of been doing that for the last 10 years of my life. I tried to stick with what works and thankfully, it worked and we got the win.

I didn't know where it was, but everybody said it went in.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.