Joe Thornton
Joe Thornton
Joseph Eric Thorntonis a Canadian-American professional ice hockey centreman and an alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He was selected first overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play seven seasons with the club, three as its captain. During the 2005–06 season, he was traded to the Sharks. Splitting the campaign between the two teams, he received the Art Ross and Hart Memorial Trophies as the...
box confident group stay
We're a confident group here. If we can just stay out of the box and we play our game, we'll be OK.
eddie played third
Eddie really played well in the third period,
analyze easy talented
It's just been real easy for us to play together. I don't try to analyze it too much. He's a really talented guy, but he's still really down-to-earth.
frustrates stick wait
It frustrates the other team. You just stick with it and wait for your chances.
field good guys lined
He's a good leader. He's a real good field general, getting the guys lined up.
blame excuse hard knew sit work
It could have been an excuse for us to sit back, blame it on the travel. But we have (today) off and we knew that, so we wanted to work hard and get the two points.
fans great hope sports
I think Boston's a great sports city, and I think the fans are great here. We said 'We're sorry' so many times -- we just hope the fans will come back, and I think they will.
bear close door game good great learn minutes played seems start until
I thought we played 55 minutes of great hockey. We've got to learn to close the door when we get a chance. We say it, it seems like every game now. Until we start learning, we really need to bear down. It just wasn't good enough tonight.
couple good job kicking
Judson made some good decisions. Davin made a couple big plays, some big catches. He also did a good job punting and kicking for us.
nice obviously win
Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).
skate
They skate so well. They're very quick, very skilled.
excitement hold lots third
There was lots of excitement in the third period, but we just couldn't hold the lead.
handful left nice pick played practiced seeing since time
We've only practiced not even a handful of times yet. It's just nice seeing him back there. It's been a long time since we've played together, so it's nice to pick up where we left off.
couple dumb five goals looked offensive penalties played took zone
We played really well five on five. We got a couple of goals five on five, and we looked sharp. We just took some dumb penalties in the offensive zone that we shouldn't have taken. It took away the momentum.