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
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.
Everyone in our division knows how tight the race is so those games are that much tighter. It's a challenge every night for Joe and myself. We have to look at it like that and have fun with it.
I learned so much - a lot of hockey things, but probably the biggest was the work ethic that Kelly would bring. Kelly told me he would do it for me, and make sure that some day, you do it for somebody else.
It's great. We know it's always like that in the playoffs.
The last couple of games we haven't done the things we need to do to win games and that's got to stop.
It was good to come out and get that three-goal lead like that. We had some more chances after that.
We got some lucky bounces there and got some bounces off guys.
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 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.
They always play us hard. They haven't taken any games off against us, and it's obvious that we have.
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.
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.