Los Angeles Kings' Mike Richards to find out the success of Philadelphia

Los Angeles Kings' Mike Richards to find out the success of Philadelphia

Once again, useful, and a trip of about three months, the Kings center Mike Richards is the wisdom of having someone around six inches taller and 35 pounds heavier. It is a

Phoenix coyotes called forward Hanzal Martin.

“I do not know what I thought,” Richards said Friday, chuckling in their scrap, battle-game, between the Kings and the Coyotes was the Staples Center in February. “Defence”.

Survival, perhaps?

In any event, there will be rematch … no rematch.

Kings will open the Western Conference finals in Phoenix in Game 1 on Sunday, at seventeen, and it is highly unlikely that there will be Richards vs. Hanzal, Part II.

Then again, a little went according to form or plan of the wildly unpredictable Endgame in the spring. Few people could wait a few months ago, that Richards and his line-mate Jeff Carter would be the place to play the Stanley Cup finals, and the Philadelphia Flyers.

in exile in Los Angeles has never looked so good.

on the same day, Richards spoke to several reporters after the Kings’ practice, his former teammate in Philadelphia was too busy to have exit meetings, extracting it from the loss of the playoffs New Jersey Devils and talks about the future.

happily Philadelphia – Richards and post-post-Carter – would have led to a change in the management of orange-colored run deep into the playoffs. Flyers sent Richards and Carter travel no uncertain terms, they trade on the same day in late June and the Kings and the Columbus Blue Jackets, respectively.

Richards was sent to Kings forward Wayne Simmonds in return, well-touted possibility of Brayden Schenn, and a draft choice. The move paved the way for the Flyers next Big Splash, by signing the Coyotes goalie Ilya Bryzgalov has a nine-year contract.

Carter was reunited with Richards eight months later, just before the trade deadline Jack Johnson Deal.

With Richards and Carter, the Flyers lost the second round of the Boston Bruins in 2011. Without Richards and Carter, they also did better in the second round in New Jersey has five games.

Richa rds said he saw part of the third period of Game 5

“I could not properly stop and think about how well the Jersey was playing,” Richards says. “I know [Devils'] Pete DeBoer as coach I played four years in Kitchener [Canada] … and how much he or she probably got a team ready for them, and how demanding a coach he is and how smart he is.

“I was surprised, and [they] carried out the game plan for T. fun to see how fast they were and who they are playing the next round will have their hands full.”

Richards, who faced the Flyers and the team captain, was crushed trade. Pain of separation gradually faded through the autumn and winter.

“In general, when a guy is out, he was destroyed, it is a good thing,” Kings and general manager Dean Lombardi said. “This means that he was wearing the team jersey of his sleeve. If he is young enough, for he was, he shows the same passion with you.

“You guys kind, and they are present. You really do not begin to see that the presence of the place at least until the playoffs, and last week’s season, when the money was in line. “

The Associated Press story of Philadelphia, to follow the Flyers defeat the playoffs, so Richards and Carter, introductory phrase:” Somewhere in Los Angeles, Mike Richards and Jeff Carter have to share a chuckle. “

Richards, sounded relieved he did not want to play and talk about his former team.

” I have many friends there, “he said.” You always want to best friends. You never want to go against the team, especially when you have a lot of friends there, and a city that has given me a lot., So always hope for the best for them.

“We still have a long ways before we can get. But it would be a little tricky, if we go back and play for the first year back. It would have been a little weird.”

Not because he had not been down this road.

“There are so many under-17s, young people aged under 18 years All-Star Games, the Olympics,” he said. “You typically have a friend or two on each team. When you get on the ice, a kind strippers for 60 minutes.”

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