Patrick Marleau
Patrick Marleau
Patrick Denis Marleauis a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He previously served as captain for the Sharks, from 2004 to 2009. Marleau is the all-time Sharks leader in goals, even strength goals, power play goals, points, shots and games played having spent his entire NHL career with the Sharks since being drafted second overall by the franchise in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He played his 1,400th NHL game on...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth15 September 1979
CityAneroid, Canada
It's going to be a good test for our club coming off two poor performances. Instead of backpedaling, hopefully we can start moving in the right direction.
It's just a great time of the year. Everybody is pulling for each other, and everybody is working together to get the job done. When we're playing well, you can see the extra effort in everything we do.
It was good to come out and get that three-goal lead like that. We had some more chances after that.
It's great. We know it's always like that in the playoffs.
We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.
We knew we were getting chances. We knew if we could stick with it and get shots, we would be OK.
I think everyone in here still believes we can do it, but we've been saying for how many months now that we can't let games slip away? Sooner or later, if we keep letting them slip away, we're not going to be able to say we can still get into (the playoffs).
We took some bad penalties, penalties at the wrong time, anyway.
The last couple of games we haven't done the things we need to do to win games and that's got to stop.
In the third, we didn't come out and play to get the win.
I can't believe it went right into the net. I went to make a move and all of a sudden I hit it straight in. There were a couple of hits on my stick, but it shouldn't matter.
I can't believe it went right in the net. I don't know what to say. I thought I was going to pick it up and go behind the net. I went to make a move, and all of a sudden I hit it straight in.
Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.
I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.