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.
hockey hung veteran
We're a veteran hockey club, we know better than that. We hung Manny out to dry.
shooting specialty talked teams
One thing we wanted to do was take away Blake, with that big one-timer he has. We wanted to get into some shooting lanes, and we did that. We talked about how important specialty teams were going to be in this game, and they were.
hear hope word
Let's hope we don't hear the word 'trap' anymore,
love
Obviously, we would love to have him in our lineup,
good stops tonight
Ozzie (Osgood) made some good stops tonight and we had a lot of jump.
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.
bothers complete dressing everybody good
We've done a lot of good things but a complete game, we haven't done that. That's something that bothers everybody in this dressing room.
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.
certainly five four realizing regular scoreboard sure teams watch
Yeah, now we're on the scoreboard watching. We're realizing there's probably about four or five teams that are going to keep flip-flopping from here right on up to the end of the regular season. For us, you certainly watch that but the one thing we want to make sure is that we're concentrating on what this team does.
couple
We've got to get better. We haven't done it for a couple of games, and we've got to find a way real quick.
next sitting
Why are you sitting next to me? Get out of here.
game guys skate
To be able to go out there and let guys skate and make plays, ... that's how the game should be played.
games meant playing playoffs
We've been playing some games here for a while now that haven't really meant anything standing-wise. Now everything's over and done with. The playoffs are coming.