Bradley Glenn "Brad" Richards (born May 2, 1980) is a former professional ice hockey center in Canada. Richards was designed in the third round, 64 overall, by Tampa Bay Lightning at the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and played for Lightning, New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings during his career at the National Hockey League (NHL).
Richards won the Stanley Cup in 2004 with Lightning, where he was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player during the playoffs. In 2015, he won the second Stanley Cup in his career, with the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Richards was born and raised in Murray Harbor, Prince Edward Island. From the age of 14, Richards had been friends with Vincent Lecavalier after they met at the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a boarding school with the famous hockey program in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. They are roommates and soon become good friends because they are both the youngest players in their hockey team. Since then, they later became team-mates for Rimouski OcÃÆ' Â © anic of Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and Tampa Bay Lightning. Lecavalier was also responsible for advising Lightning's management after they drafted it to draft the Richards concept.
In his final season with Rimouski, Richards won almost every honor for Canadian junior at QMJHL: he earned a Jean BÃÆ'  © liveau Trophy after leading QMJHL with 186 points, as well as the Telus Cup, awarded to the league's best offensive player; he won the QMJHL and the Canadian Hockey League Plus/Minus Awards with the plus-80 mark, and was the First-Team All-Star on the Quebec and Canadian Hockey League (CHL) circuits, as well as the CHL Players of the Year and the Leading Grailmaker. In post-season, Richards took home both the Guy Lafleur Trophy as the MVP of the QMJHL playoffs, then the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the MVP of the 2000 Memorial Cup, as Ocà © Ã… © anic won both QMJHL playoff titles and CHL Memorial Cups.
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Play career
Tampa Bay Lightning
Richards was designed in the third round, 64th overall, by Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, having recorded 82 assists and 115 points in his design year. In the same drama, Lightning chose Vincent Lecavalier, Richards team-mates at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame and Rimouski, with the first overall pick. During the 2003-04 NHL season, Lightning will win their first Stanley Cup, with Richards contribution during the playoffs making him the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the postseason, which includes a record seven winning goals, overtaking Joe Sakic Records and Joe Nieuwendyk containing six. He also won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy that season. Later that year, he won the World Cup Hockey Championship playing in Team Canada.
On 26 September 2004, Rimouski OcÃÆ' Â © anic of QMJHL resigned from Richards uniform.
Richards played for Ak Bars Kazan in Russia's Superleague (RSL) during the NHL 2004-05 lockout on teams with fellow NHLers Ilya Kovalchuk, Alexei Kovalev, Vincent Lecavalier, Michael Nylander, Alexei Zhitnik, Dany Heatley and Nikolai Khabibulin. Richards also played for the Canadian Team at the 2006 Olympics.
After Lightning was eliminated from the 2006 playoffs, Lightning again signed Richards to a five-year contract extension of US $ 39 million.
Dallas Stars
On February 26, 2008, about three hours before the NHL trade deadline, Richards traded to Dallas Stars in a blockbuster deal (along with goaltender Johan Holmqvist) in exchange for goalscorers Mike Smith, center Jeff Halpern, winger Jussi Jokinen and 2009 pick draft round fourth. Richards set the franchise record of Stars of most assists in the team's debut game with five players; This record is also a career high for Richards. In the game, Dallas defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 7-4, and Richards was named the first star.
In the playoff round of 2008, Richards tied the NHL record by scoring four points in a single period in a game against San Jose Sharks.
During the 2008-09 season, Richards scored 16 goals and 48 points in 55 matches before suffering a broken right wrist following an inspection from Columbus Blue Jackets forward Jakub VorÃÆ'¡? Ek on February 16, 2009. Richards meets with a specialist the next day. and missed 15 matches. Richards returned to the Stars line-up on 21 March, but he then decided the other side of the third period of Dallas's loss to San Jose. He will not be back for the rest of the season, and the Stars miss the playoffs.
In the 2009-10 season, the team ruled out general managers Brett Hull and Les Jackson, who had traded for Richards, and fired head coach Dave Tippett, replacing the last with Marc Crawford. Despite the regime's new and sad regimes in the standings for the second consecutive season, Richards enjoyed a career year, personal high match with 91 points scored, playing mainly with Loui Eriksson and roommate James Neal. Richards finished seventh in the NHL standings that year, just behind former Lightning Martin St Louis team-mate. He also finished fourth in the NHL in total assists and second on powerplay points. However, the Star failed to reach the playoffs of 2010. After the season, Richards was named finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy.
New York Rangers
After becoming an unlimited free agent, Richards signed a $ 60 million nine-year contract with the New York Rangers on July 2, 2011, uniting him with John Tortorella, his head coach of the 2004 Stanley Cup winning team, and another member of the 2004 team, Ruslan Fedotenko. He is also approached by Calgary Flames, Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning.
On October 8, 2011, Richards scored his first goal as Ranger in a 2-1 penalty shootout for Anaheim Ducks. The game is played at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm. He will go on to record 25 goals along with 41 assists during his first season with Rangers, as well as six goals and nine assists in 20 playoff games, as Rangers are finally knocked out of the 2012 playoff by the New Jersey Devil.
On April 19, 2013, Richards scored his first NHL hat in a game against Buffalo Sabers.
On March 5, 2014, Rangers acquired Martin St. Louis, reuniting the two, who were previously team-mates when Lightning won the trophy in 2004. Louis and Richards played an integral role in Rangers' run to the 2014 Stanley Cup Final, which they lost in five games to the Los Angeles Kings.
On June 20, 2014, the remainder of Richards' contract was purchased by Rangers to increase the salary cap space, make him an unlimited free agent, and end a brief reunion between him and St.. Louis.
Chicago Blackhawks
On July 1, 2014, Richards signed a one-year, $ 2 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. He wears 91 for the Blackhawks, the first player in the team's history to do so, as usual # 19 is already worn by Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews Richards playing in his 1,000th NHL match on November 16, 2014, against his former. team, Star Dallas.
Blackhawks, with Richards, then face one of his former teams, Lightning, in the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, won the Stanley Cup in six games.
Detroit Red Wings
On July 1, 2015, Richards signed a one-year, $ 3 million contract with Detroit Red Wings, worth up to $ 4 million with a playoff bonus. With Richard's traditional # 19 retirement for Steve Yzerman, Richards opted to wear # 17 with Red Wings.
The Red Wings almost made the playoff for the 25th season in a row. Richards' season-ending efforts included a game-tying goal against the New York Rangers on March 12 with 32 seconds left (Red Wings then won 2-1 in extra-time), and a two-point game against Toronto Maple Leafs on April 2
In the playoffs, Richards recorded a goal as the Red Wings were eliminated in five games by Tampa Bay Lightning.
On July 20, 2016, Richards announced his retirement from professional hockey.
Personal life
During the off-season, Richards returns to his birthplace, Prince Edward Island. Richards has hosted Brad Richards PEI Celebrity Golf Classic for the past six years. The event supports two charities: Children's Desire Foundation, Prince Edward Island Chapters and Prince Edward Island Autism Society. She befriends Hackey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean, who spends a lot of time in PEI. During his time with Rangers, Richards lives in an apartment in Manhattan.
Richards rented a suite at St. Pete Times Forum (now called Amalie Arena) for some Tampa Bay Lightning hockey games and invites families who deal with various forms of pediatric cancer to use it. After every game, he will go and visit the children who come to watch the game. It started during the 2002-03 season and ends in 2008. When he traded to the Dallas Stars, he continued his charity work with the Children's Medical Center Oncology Department, providing tickets for sick children. He also donated tickets for every home game for men and women in the military.
Richards underwent an artoscopic hip surgery on April 23, 2010, to repair a small labrum tear. In September 2010, he donated $ 500,000 to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, PEI.
Richards and his wife, Rechelle, have one son, Luca, born October 7, 2014. Richards speaks in both English and French.
Career statistics
Regular and playoff seasons
International
Awards
- 1999-2000 : CHL Best Player of the Year
- 1999-2000 : CHL Leading the Group Printers
- 1999-2000 : CHL Plus/Minus Award Winner
- 1999-2000 : CHL First All-Star Team
- 1999-2000 : QMJHL Michel BriÃÆ'¨re Memorial Trophy (Most Valuable Player)
- 1999-2000 : QMJHL Jean BÃÆ' Â © liveau Trophy (Leader's Creator)
- 1999-2000 : QMJHL Plus/Minus Award Winner
- 1999-2000 : QMJHL Presidential Cup Winner
- 1999-2000 : QMJHL Guy Lafleur Trophy (Playoff MVP)
- 1999-2000 : First Team All-Star QMJHL
- 1999-2000 : Memorial Cup Champion
- 1999-2000 : Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (MVP) Memorial Cup
- 1999-2000 : The Memorial Cup All-Star Team
- 2000-01 : The NHL All-Rookie Team
- 2001-02 : NHL YoungStars Game Participant
- 2003-04 : Stanley NHL Cup Winner (Tampa Bay Lightning)
- 2003-04 : NHL Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP)
- 2003-04 : NHL Lady Byng Trophy (Sportmanship)
- 2010-11 : Played in NHL All-Star Game
- 2014-15 : Champion NHL Stanley Cup (Chicago Blackhawks)
See also
- List of NHL players with 1000 games played
References
External links
- Brad Richards career statistics on The Internet Hockey Database
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