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'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 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 got some lucky bounces there and got some bounces off guys.
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.
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.
I think our team can do a better job staying out of the box, but our power play came up huge.
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.
We knew we were getting chances. We knew if we could stick with it and get shots, we would be OK.
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 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.
We have to learn from it, but we can't dwell on it. We have to go get two points in Calgary.