Jonathan Cheechoo
Jonathan Cheechoo
Jonathan Cheechoois a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who is currently playing for HC Slovan Bratislava of the Kontinental Hockey League...
bit rest time
Any time you can get a little bit of rest it helps.
everybody foot guess hit knew looked
I knew it hit my foot and I looked down at my skate. Everybody started celebrating so I knew something happened. I guess you get one of those every once in a while.
nobody seen shot turned
I just turned and seen there was nobody between me and the net, so I just shot it. I didn't even look at the clock.
best five four games last nice struggled
It was one of our best efforts. We've struggled in the last four or five games so it was nice to come back like this.
position
I wanted to put myself in a position where he'd make the first move.
above against climb games huge playoff teams trying win
It's a pretty big win for us. Every win now is big for us. We're trying to climb back into the playoff race, so these games against teams that are above us are huge for us.
coming contribute expected good side
It's a good thing. I was pretty excited. I never expected anything like this coming in. I just wanted to be at this level, contribute and anything I get on the side is just a bonus.
agent fans hockey school start sure
I've been working with my agent to try to get something set up. One of the things I think I'm going to start doing is a hockey school for sure because they are big hockey fans up there.
basically hockey since team uncles watched
They actually had a (men's) team that was basically made up of my uncles and my dad. I just watched them since I was a little kid. They are all hockey fanatics.
coming difficult early flat guys hard lead nice ourselves third
They battled hard after coming out flat in the first period. We jumped out to an early lead but we started to make it too difficult on ourselves and they got right back into it. It was nice to get that third one to get the guys going again.
guys hard knew missing older
They were missing some guys and they have older players, too, so we knew we had to come out hard and take it to them.
close couple eventually figured might
It's exciting. I've been close a couple times before. I figured eventually it might come if I got the bounces.
best exciting five league player seen top
It's exciting when you get a player of that magnitude. He's in the top 10 in the league ... I'd say top five ? one of the best passers I've seen in a long time.
guys helping nice reached teammates thank
It's a nice feeling, not a lot of guys have reached it so it's pretty special. I've just got to thank my teammates for helping out so much this year. It's because of them I've reached it.