Brad Richards and Martin St-Louis were teammates in Tampa Bay for several years. When they played together, St-Louis borrowed a tie from him and never gave it back.
On May 2, we celebrate the birthdays of 18 past and present NHL players. Today’s list includes a two-time Stanley Cup winner and several veterans who wore many of different sweaters throughout their careers.
On a night where Dave Andreychuk and Brad Richards were honored for their recent enshrinement into the Tampa Bay Lightning Hall of Fame, the Bolts looked like a playoff team again with a dominating 7-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
On Dec. 13 it was reported that St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong hired former NHLer Brad Richards as a consultant mainly to help their struggling power play.
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<p>In the Salary Cap Era, only one player has ever received a maximum 20% contract.</p>
<p>Brad Richards' 5 year contract signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning on May 23, 2006 was the maximum 20%, with an annual average of $7.8M (upper limit was $39M)<a href="https://t.co/URouQTdjf3">https://t.co/URouQTdjf3</a> <a href="https://t.co/gip3DNgLW5">pic.twitter.com/gip3DNgLW5</a></p>
<p>— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) <a href="https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1009915551710416896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2018</a></p>
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The Stanley Cup Playoffs are where reputations can get made... or forever changed. A Cup-clinching goal, a goalie standing on their head and carrying a team to a level that was never thought possible, or simply a record-setting performance can take a great player and turn them into a legend.