Rick Tockett
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What's the best way for those two weeks to optimize the players for the stretch drive?
You have to have a lot of talent to be able to do that.
Listen, I used to have my fun, but I could never do that.
The way I skated, man, if I took 10 days off.
Oh, my God.
I'd be out.
I'd be out of the league.
But, yeah, the guys nowadays, you know, it's a guy like Sidney Crosby.
I don't know if he still does it.
Well, obviously, he's going to the Olympics.
But when he has a break of the All-Star Games, well, he's always in it.
But when he gets breaks...
He always wants to stay in cold weather.
He finds it's better for him when he comes back.
He never liked going to the beach and stuff like that.
So it's amazing how guys are different the way they approach those days off or those breaks.
Yeah, I think the same thing in the Four Nations.
You know, he didn't play the first game.
Then he was put in the lineup, and he really defended well.
Like, he did a really nice job of playing a 200-foot game.