Up Close and Personal with Chris Clark

Sorry for the delay, but at long last... here it is. My interview with Chris Clark. I got caught up with moving in at my dorm at the University of Maryland. The same UMD that treated us with a 14-7 win over the University of Delaware Blue Hens on Saturday. Anyway, with that brief excuse out of the way, here is my interview with Chris Clark:



How are you healing up from the injury? (KG)

Good. It feels 100%. (CC)

So are you ready to go out there and kick some butt? (KG)

Yeah. (CC)

So what do you expect out of the team this year? (KG)

A lot about kind of what we finished last year. We finished real strong. We can carry that into this year. We got basically the same team, new goalie obviously, but unbelievable goalie, so I think he can step right in and help us right away. (CC)

Beating Philly this year? (KG)

Yeah, that’s our goal. (CC)

Getting rid of those Philly fans? (KG)

Yeah, that’s our goal. (CC)

That’s exactly what I want to hear. (KG)

What are your personal goals for this season? (KG)

Personal goals have a lot to do with team goals this year. We have a really good team, it’s not every year that management will put together a team like this where you can get close to the cap or at the cap and spend the money, so we really have to show that we can do it this year. (CC)

What’s it like playing under Bruce Boudreau, I know I’ve seen on the ice, it’s been a completely different team. What differences did he come in and make behind the scenes, all we were seeing was on the ice? (KG)

A lot of his power play stuff, he really turned it around, that was one of his specialties coming in , we have great talent on our power play, but it took him to change a couple things, our power play really took off at the end of the year. Just confidence, he came in thinking we were gonna win, knowing we were gonna win, just instilling that in us. (CC)

Any other comments about the season, anything like that? (KG)

Just looking forward to it, start right now, it’ll be great. (CC)

With that, my conversation came to an end. It was time for Clark and Bradley to sign autographs for fans assembled at the Verizon Center for the Open House. Not sure when my next update will be, but be sure to keep checking back, or subscribe to the RSS feed.