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...
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.
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You never expect to have anything like this, but this is what I worked for. This is what I spent my summer training for. I wanted to be as good as I could. ... I always liked the way (Thornton) played, and I watched him play a lot growing up, when he was in juniors. He's a great passer, and I like to shoot.
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It's a hockey-rich town there, and everybody lives hockey. When they go hunting now they even take a generator, a TV and a satellite dish out there so they can watch the playoff games.
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He's a great player. I've watched him since '94, I guess. He's always been one of the best players in the league, so I got lucky to get ahead of him.
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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.
growing guys imagined names respect sinking
I never really imagined it, but it's amazing. A lot of guys who I have a lot of respect for when I was growing up have got their names on that trophy. It's still sinking in.
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I've gotten used to it and embraced it. Now it's something that I kind of take pride in and I enjoy speaking to the kids.
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.
bit rest time
Any time you can get a little bit of rest it helps.
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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.
finding
The puck's just been finding me in the right spots.
haul legs
We got our legs moving. Everyone started skating. You do that they've got to haul you down every once in a while.