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Brad Richards

#17 · Centre · Detroit Red Wings

Born May 2, 1980 in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, CAN · 6'0", 199 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 64th overall in 1998 by TBL (round 3)

Trophy case

×2 Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2014-15, 2003-04
Conn Smythe Trophy MVP of Stanley Cup Playoffs 2003-04
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Sportsmanship and Gentlemanly Conduct 2003-04

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2008-09. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Mikhail Grabovski TOR · 48 P in 78 GP Bill Guerin PIT · 48 P in 79 GP Sergei Samsonov CAR · 48 P in 81 GP Craig Conroy CGY · 48 P in 82 GP Cory Stillman FLA · 49 P in 63 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

0204060802000-01: 62 points6200-012001-02: 62 points622002-03: 74 points7402-032003-04: 79 points792005-06: 91 points9105-062006-07: 70 points702007-08: 62 points6207-082008-09: 48 points482009-10: 91 points9109-102010-11: 77 points772011-12: 66 points6611-122012-13: 34 points342013-14: 51 points5113-142014-15: 37 points372015-16: 28 points2815-16

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2000-01 TBL 82 21 41 62 -10 14 179 14 0.76
2001-02 TBL 82 20 42 62 -18 13 251 24 0.76
2002-03 TBL 80 17 57 74 3 24 277 7 0.93
2003-04 TBL 82 26 53 79 14 12 244 9 0.96
2005-06 TBL 82 23 68 91 0 32 282 21 1.11 $1.934M
2006-07 TBL 82 25 45 70 -19 23 272 24 0.85 $7.8M
2007-08 TBL 62 18 33 51 -25 15 228 13 0.82 $7.8M
2007-08 DAL 12 2 9 11 -2 0 21 0 0.92
2008-09 DAL 56 16 32 48 -4 6 180 11 0.86 $7.8M
2009-10 DAL 80 24 67 91 -12 14 284 16 1.14 $7.8M
2010-11 DAL 72 28 49 77 1 24 272 20 1.07 $7.8M
2011-12 NYR 82 25 41 66 -1 22 229 51 0.80 $6.667M
2012-13 NYR 46 11 23 34 8 14 110 25 0.74 $6.667M
2013-14 NYR 82 20 31 51 -8 18 259 24 0.62 $6.667M
2014-15 CHI 76 12 25 37 3 12 199 32 0.49 $2M
2015-16 DET 68 10 18 28 4 8 164 16 0.41 $3M
15 seasons Career 1126 298 634 932 -66 251 3451 307 0.83

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2002-03 TBL 11 0 5 5 -3 12 32 1 0.45
2003-04 TBL 23 12 14 26 5 4 88 5 1.13
2005-06 TBL 5 3 5 8 -5 6 24 2 1.60
2006-07 TBL 6 3 5 8 -4 6 26 6 1.33
2007-08 DAL 18 3 12 15 1 8 54 9 0.83
2011-12 NYR 20 6 9 15 -2 8 71 17 0.75
2012-13 NYR 10 1 0 1 -3 2 18 7 0.10
2013-14 NYR 25 5 7 12 -2 4 74 17 0.48
2014-15 CHI 23 3 11 14 4 8 50 19 0.61
2015-16 DET 5 1 0 1 -4 7 12 4 0.20
10 seasons Playoffs 146 37 68 105 -13 65 449 87 0.72

2008-09 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
56 16 32 48 -4 6 180 11 0.86 8.9 20:29

Contract

$7.8MCap hitends in 2011, then UFA
$163KCap dollars per point48 points in 56 games

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2010-11, with 2 seasons left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2008-09 $7.8M
2009-10 $7.8M
2010-11 $7.8M

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2015-16 to 2015-16 $3M
2014-15 to 2014-15 $2M
2012-13 to 2013-14 $6.667M
2011-12 to 2019-20 $6.667M
2006-07 to 2010-11 $7.8M
2005-06 to 2005-06 $1.934M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2008-09 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Mar 21, 2009 @ SJS L 2-5 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 15:14
Feb 16, 2009 @ CBJ W 3-2 (SO) 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 09:39
Feb 14, 2009 @ CHI L 2-6 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:02
Feb 13, 2009 vs VAN W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23:10
Feb 11, 2009 vs PHX L 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 21:41
Feb 8, 2009 vs NSH W 4-1 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 18:31
Feb 6, 2009 vs NYR W 10-2 1 0 1 2 2 7 0 18:43
Feb 5, 2009 @ COL L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:27
Feb 3, 2009 vs CGY W 3-1 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 19:53
Jan 31, 2009 @ CBJ W 7-3 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 19:09
Jan 29, 2009 @ DET W 4-2 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 18:46
Jan 27, 2009 vs ATL W 2-0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 22:05
Jan 21, 2009 @ FLA W 4-1 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 19:27
Jan 19, 2009 @ TBL L 2-4 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 20:59
Jan 17, 2009 vs LAK W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 22:11
Jan 15, 2009 vs BUF L 4-5 (SO) 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 20:48
Jan 12, 2009 vs DET W 5-4 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 7 0 23:43
Jan 10, 2009 @ PHX L 0-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 21:16
Jan 8, 2009 @ DET L 1-6 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 20:06
Jan 4, 2009 @ VAN W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 20:52
Jan 3, 2009 @ EDM L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 21:15
Dec 31, 2008 vs NJD W 4-2 0 3 3 1 0 5 1 19:01
Dec 29, 2008 vs SJS L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21:04
Dec 27, 2008 vs ANA W 4-3 (OT) 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 22:37
Dec 23, 2008 @ TOR W 8-2 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 16:44
Dec 20, 2008 @ OTT L 4-5 (OT) 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 18:44
Dec 18, 2008 vs CBJ W 6-5 (SO) 1 3 4 0 0 3 0 24:55
Dec 16, 2008 vs PHX W 2-1 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 21:09
Dec 13, 2008 @ NSH L 0-3 0 0 0 -2 0 6 0 19:10
Dec 12, 2008 vs DET W 3-1 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:36
Dec 10, 2008 vs PHX L 3-5 0 0 0 -3 2 1 0 21:58
Dec 5, 2008 vs COL W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:33
Dec 3, 2008 @ EDM L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 22:49
Dec 2, 2008 @ CGY W 3-1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 21:13
Nov 30, 2008 vs EDM W 4-3 0 2 2 0 0 4 0 23:49
Nov 28, 2008 vs SJS L 2-6 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 19:00
Nov 26, 2008 @ MIN W 4-3 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 21:48
Nov 24, 2008 @ PHI L 3-4 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 23:17
Nov 22, 2008 vs ANA L 1-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 25:16
Nov 20, 2008 vs CHI L 3-6 0 2 2 -1 0 3 0 19:03
Nov 15, 2008 @ PHX W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:24
Nov 13, 2008 vs LAK L 2-3 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 22:42
Nov 11, 2008 @ LAK L 2-3 (SO) 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 23:54
Nov 8, 2008 @ SJS L 1-2 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 23:21
Nov 7, 2008 @ ANA W 5-2 1 1 2 1 0 7 0 19:41
Nov 1, 2008 @ BOS L 1-5 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:27
Oct 29, 2008 vs MIN W 4-2 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 20:22
Oct 25, 2008 vs WSH L 5-6 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:19
Oct 23, 2008 @ NYI W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:42
Oct 22, 2008 @ NJD L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:44
Oct 20, 2008 @ NYR W 2-1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 21:42
Oct 18, 2008 vs COL L 4-5 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 22:27
Oct 16, 2008 @ STL L 1-6 0 0 0 -2 0 4 0 16:07
Oct 15, 2008 vs NSH W 6-4 0 2 2 1 0 5 0 18:18
Oct 11, 2008 @ NSH L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:56
Oct 10, 2008 vs CBJ L 4-5 (OT) 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 22:58