Marian Gaborik
Marian Gaborik
Marián Gáboríkis a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. He began his playing career in the Slovak Extraliga with Dukla Trenčín for two seasons before being drafted third overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. Spending eight seasons in Minnesota before signing with the New York Rangers in 2009, Gáborík is the Wild's all-time leading scorer in goals. He has also played for the...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth14 February 1982
CityTrencin, Slovakia
I felt pretty good. We are trying to be smart and use shorter shifts. I think that was working out there.
We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.
When the playoff picture isn't there anymore, it's hard to get motivated. But I think we are doing fine and especially these last few games we have to go out there and have fun.
The season was a roller-coaster. There was a lot of inconsistency. ...Overall it wasn't bad but we want to get to the playoffs. That's our goal so we fell short.
I'll take it day-by-day. I'm excited to play, obviously, but they don't want to rush it and I don't want to rush it.
I had to be patient, because I didn't really have my legs out there for most of the game. I was lucky to get the puck where I could do something with it.
I had a break on him and I got it. Manny has been Mr. Consistent all year. He has made some unbelievable saves this year and he showed it again in the shootout.
Once they scored that second and third goal we kind of stopped playing. We just can't do that.
As you saw against Edmonton, we can play against anybody when we're playing our system and everybody's ready. If we can be consistent in that and get some breaks, we can win some games.
That's been the story this year. When we get a lot of chances, we can't really bear down. Maybe be more patient. We get a little nervous with the puck in front of the net. Try to get some ugly goals.
It was a very big win. We battled toward the end, got some breaks and scored some goals.
You could see out there guys were hungry. It's a big game. The pressure was there, especially when you go back home after a month. We've just got to feed off this game and go forward.