Richardson on his relationship with head coach Dominique Ducharme and fellow assistant coach Alex Burrows:
There's a great energy between us. We're all business when it's time to work, but we also have fun and we enjoy things. Sometimes, you can't take everything so seriously. You've got to be able to enjoy things. If you can do that at the right times, it makes the important times and the more serious times more meaningful and more productive. We have a good relationship, both in hockey and outside hockey, and with Sean Burke, too. It was a great staff. Moving forward, we want to run on this energy that we've created here this year. A lot of that came from the players. They put the effort in out on the ice and they really did a fantastic job. To be a part of that was very special. You hate to see it end. It's a terrible feeling when it ends, but what an opportunity it is to recreate that and try to build off of it.
Richardson on his relationship with the Habs' defensemen:
I really enjoy the group that we have. How can you not? You've got to respect how they played through this playoffs and really made it difficult on other teams, especially their top players. I'm sure it wasn't fun to play out there, which is the way the playoffs are supposed to be to win. What a great group! To have those top-four guys, I give them a lot of credit. But, guys like Kulak and Romanov that came in the last two games, that's a tough time to come in if you haven't played in a while, and they did fantastic. The additions that Berge made at the deadline with Merrill and Gustafsson really helped us get over that hump in the playoffs in certain areas. Our group was really special. Hockey is never perfect. You have to keep that in mind. You can't get too upset when there's a mistake or things don't go your way one game. It's how you can build off of it and get better and rebound. That's how I try to build my relationship with those players so they can trust me when I'm telling them something to make them better.