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...
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.
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.
confidence overtime win
We just had confidence going into overtime we were going to win the game.
home ice knocked love might second seeds third top winning
You never know. Top seeds might get knocked out, and we could get home ice in the second or third round. ... I love it out here. I feel really strong, and we're winning a lot of games.
nice obviously win
Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).
capitalize fine looked main moved obviously power puck stayed win
Obviously our power play looked great, we moved the puck around fine and the main thing is we stayed disciplined tonight. That's how we're going to win games, stay disciplined and capitalize on our power plays.
forty game hunting last playing playoff teams tone trying win
We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.
hopefully winning
Hopefully we won't have too many more of these losses. I like winning games.
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.
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.
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.
shelter
There are a lot of distractions with homecoming. Hopefully, we can shelter them as much as we can from that.
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.