Jonathan Cheechoo
Jonathan Cheechoo
Jonathan Cheechoois a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who is currently playing for HC Slovan Bratislava of the Kontinental Hockey League...
close couple eventually figured might
It's exciting. I've been close a couple times before. I figured eventually it might come if I got the bounces.
embraced enjoy gotten pride speaking
I've gotten used to it and embraced it. Now it's something that I kind of take pride in and I enjoy speaking to the kids.
position
I wanted to put myself in a position where he'd make the first move.
control couple everybody gets good pressure spend sustained time
The first couple of shifts we sustained pressure in their end, and had good control. When you spend that much time in their end, I think everybody gets a little more energized.
confidence confident joe shown
I think they've shown a lot of confidence in me and I'm confident in the team. It's pretty exciting. When they went out and got Joe Thornton, it showed they wanted to win.
great joe obviously player quite record speaks
Obviously our record speaks for itself, the numbers. It's been quite a turnaround. It's great to have a player like Joe on the line.
came dropped knew position shoot shooting trying
I came in, trying to set myself up so I could shoot at any time. I got into shooting position and he dropped down pretty early, so I knew I just had to get it upstairs.
above against climb games huge playoff teams trying win
It's a pretty big win for us. Every win now is big for us. We're trying to climb back into the playoff race, so these games against teams that are above us are huge for us.
bit rest time
Any time you can get a little bit of rest it helps.
bit came flat intensity last matched nice physically played road solid time
The last time we played them we came out a little bit flat and they played a really good, solid road game. So it's nice to come in here and to the same thing to them. I think we matched them a little bit better physically than we did at home, and we matched their intensity for the whole game.
coming difficult early flat guys hard lead nice ourselves third
They battled hard after coming out flat in the first period. We jumped out to an early lead but we started to make it too difficult on ourselves and they got right back into it. It was nice to get that third one to get the guys going again.
best exciting five league player seen top
It's exciting when you get a player of that magnitude. He's in the top 10 in the league ... I'd say top five ? one of the best passers I've seen in a long time.
best five four games last nice struggled
It was one of our best efforts. We've struggled in the last four or five games so it was nice to come back like this.