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 just goes to show, even when you have the effort it's hard to win in this league.
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.
The effort was there tonight, definitely. It just goes to show you, even when you have the effort it's hard to win in this league. We didn't get the result we wanted but I think we took a step in the right direction.
We got some lucky bounces there and got some bounces off guys.
They always play us hard. They haven't taken any games off against us, and it's obvious that we have.
We have to learn from it, but we can't dwell on it. We have to go get two points in Calgary.
I think our team can do a better job staying out of the box, but our power play came up huge.
We had our chances on the power play, and we definitely could have used a big goal. We tried a lot of shots. Maybe we should have worked it around a little more. When we do that, though, we say we need to shoot more.
I don't know what it is. They always come out hard and play us hard. We have to expect that. They haven't taken any games off against us this year, and it seems like maybe we have.
We find ourselves trying to play ourselves into a playoff spot. Right now we're playing ourselves out of it.
We want to play on their end. If we've got the puck, they probably are going to do something to try to get the puck.
We've got a lot of games against division rivals, and if we can win those, we're right back in the thick of things.
We had three right before the break, now this makes four and this is what it's going to take to get back in the race.
We've been saying it all year, we need everyone coming to play. If we do that, we should get good results. Guys are working hard and stuff, but it's little mistakes that in years past there'd be somebody else back to cover things up and we're not doing that either.