Blake notes

By Matthew Kredell on September 14, 2007 2:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) |

On being the only player scheduled to play Saturday's exhibition game after also playing Thursday, and how his hip is holding up: ``It was good. I want to play as many as I can this training camp with the hip surgery to get back and get the feel of playing again. Everything felt pretty good last night.''

On being captain: ``It's great. It's always an honor to be able to do that. I had some time with it here years ago and enjoyed that. I learned some more from the guys in Colorado on some great teams I played on there. Hopefully I can bring some of that experience back here to probably a younger team than I've ever played on.''

3 Comments

Bubbadel2 said:

Blake was named captain?

September 14, 2007 11:13 PM

Matthew Kredell said:

Not officially, but Crawford has hinted that he will be.

September 15, 2007 11:42 AM

GMatsuda said:

Matt...Crawford did more than hint. He actually said that Blake will be the captain. Heard it myself in the dressing room Thursday night at Anaheim after the game.

September 15, 2007 3:44 PM

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