Marian Gaborik
Marian Gaborik
Marián Gáboríkis a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. He began his playing career in the Slovak Extraliga with Dukla Trenčín for two seasons before being drafted third overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. Spending eight seasons in Minnesota before signing with the New York Rangers in 2009, Gáborík is the Wild's all-time leading scorer in goals. He has also played for the...
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth14 February 1982
CityTrencin, Slovakia
It gives you a boost of confidence to get that goal.
I'm honored and I'm happy ... it's cool.
That doesn't happen every day. I can feel a lot of confidence in this room right now.
I was used to not having to check the defensive zone. I had to learn to adjust to it, otherwise I was going to be in the minors.
We were talking about getting a lot of shots on them and trying to go for the rebound, and it worked tonight.
We were really good tonight. The guys were hungry and we really wanted the puck and went after it. We also had fun.
When the playoff picture isn't there anymore, it's hard to get motivated. But I think we are doing fine and especially these last few games we have to go out there and have fun.
We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.
I felt pretty good. We are trying to be smart and use shorter shifts. I think that was working out there.
This team has confidence, especially at home. Everybody is on the same page.
We want to finish strong and get some wins. Some guys are battling for jobs and stuff, obviously. You want to end things on a good note for the fans. They've supported us the whole time, so we want to finish the best we can.
We got some rebounds out there. We've got to bear down on them and bury one.
Obviously it was a good buy. Very good buy.
I was skating for 10 days, so I felt good out there. The biggest thing is we won the game.