32 Quotes by Mike Richards

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.