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...
great pleased
Judson's a great kid. I'm real pleased with him.
great
It's great to come back up 3-1, but we still need one more,
bear close door game good great learn minutes played seems start until
I thought we played 55 minutes of great hockey. We've got to learn to close the door when we get a chance. We say it, it seems like every game now. Until we start learning, we really need to bear down. It just wasn't good enough tonight.
fans great hope sports
I think Boston's a great sports city, and I think the fans are great here. We said 'We're sorry' so many times -- we just hope the fans will come back, and I think they will.
both great guys matter talked team
I talked to them, they want to be back here. We need both those players. Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time. If those guys get signed, we'll have a great team this year.
great stevie tap
I just wanted to get on my backhand. Stevie made a great play to get over to me. All I had to do was tap it in.
great
He's really smart. He has a great GPA.
anybody great hand honest hot seen
Cheech has the hot hand right now. I haven't seen anybody like that, to be honest with you. He's a great player.
felt great guys hard looked shot tough
He's got a hard shot and he's tough to cover. He's my go-to guy. He looked great. A lot of guys said he was going to be tired, but he looked great and felt great on the bench, no huffing and puffing, so he did good. I was impressed.
again game good since talking
We've been talking about that a lot since Game 1. The PK got it done again (Tuesday) and it was good to see.
confidence overtime win
We just had confidence going into overtime we were going to win the game.
front traffic
We just got to get some traffic in front of the net. We're going to be fine.
feeling forced good guys nice plenty
We just forced their defense. We were just all over them. It's nice to see plenty of goals. Guys are feeling good right now.
eddie played third
Eddie really played well in the third period,