Mike Richards was recently formally charged for possession of a controlled substance. Not great news. But it is news. And rather than getting into all the details about the charge, I want to go at a different angle. I’d like to consider what really happened with the downward spiral of Mike Richards career. A player who was once atop the league slowly deteriorated into a 4th line center.
There are lots of questions about why this happened to Richards. Maybe it was lack of effort. Or changing of line mates. Or just the fact that he’s gotten older.