Joe Thornton
Joe Thornton
Joseph Eric Thorntonis a Canadian-American professional ice hockey centreman and an alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was selected first overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play seven seasons with the club, three as its captain. During the 2005–06 season, he was traded to the Sharks. Splitting the campaign between the two teams, he received the Art Ross and Hart Memorial Trophies as the...
shelter
There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.
good knew problem traded
When I got traded here, I knew it wasn't going to be a problem and nothing has changed. We're 1-A and 1-B lines. I can't say enough good things about him.
box confident group stay
We're a confident group here. If we can just stay out of the box and we play our game, we'll be OK.
feelings good last played start team towards year
With them being the last team we played against, we don't have too many good feelings for them, and they probably don't have too many good feelings towards us. They're our number-one rival; it's a good way to start the year off.
blocking four games job win
We're not going to win too many games if we let them have four power-play goals. We've got to do a better job of blocking shots.
hopefully spend time
We're better than we were yesterday, and hopefully we're getting better every day. We're getting used to each other the more time we spend on ice.
guys matter
Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.
confident dressing everybody feels playoffs room
We are a confident bunch. We have a young bunch. Yeah, everybody in the dressing room feels like we can make the playoffs for sure.
bunch games guys win
We play these guys pretty good. We all know we've got to win a bunch of games to get into the playoffs.
against experience extra goes growth physical senior sophomore start three weight
When another team's senior lineman goes against a sophomore lineman, that's experience and physical growth and at least two extra years in the weight room. We can't make up for three years, but we can start right now.
clicking fought good minute power ran time
Our power play was clicking pretty good there, and unfortunately we couldn't get another minute there on the clock. We competed, fought back, but time just ran out.
help highly hurricane personnel resources since spell
Our personnel are highly trained, so it would help spell the resources down there that have been going since the hurricane hit.
best defense move order people tall
A lot of their people say this is the best defense they've ever had down there. It'll be a tall order to move the ball.
ball control
They have a lot of ball control and make you play the field.