There were 18,000 fans at that game and you could hear a pin drop, ... It was amazing. Their whole country was just devastated.
"Andrew Roach" is an United States/American former professional ice hockey Defenceman (ice hockey)/defenseman who predominately played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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It's great, just great, it's everything I thought it would be and even more, ... Playing at this level, you dream about it. When I went to Europe at 24 I actually told myself: 'That's it, you're giving up on the dream by coming over here.' Because it's tough to come back, you're not scouted as heavily over there, especially the German league.
It was a thrill, ... It was even better that it was against the Red Wings.
Against the Czechs, it was Tomas Vokoun in net, I came in at pretty good speed and almost put the brakes on at the hash marks, ... I'm a right-hand shot and came in with the puck on my forehand, and made a hard move to my left, and he slid across, and once I went across hard I came back to my forehand and had pretty much an open net to slide it in.
No, I don't. It depends on the goalie, I like to see what he likes to do, ... Some goalies play more for a shot while other goalies play for the deke, so that's the biggest determining factor in what I do.
It's kind of funny, I never expected something that happened so far away to be brought up so many times over here.
I think with the new rules here this season it helps a player like me out, as far as being able to jump up and not having the stick on you all the time. That's where I feel I can help out the most, in the offensive end.
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