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 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.
It just popped right out, and I was able to get the shot on net. It found a way in. We had some boys in front making it hard for him to see the puck.
It just goes to show, even when you have the effort it's hard to win in this league.
The effort was there tonight, definitely. It just goes to show you, even when you have the effort it's hard to win in this league. We didn't get the result we wanted but I think we took a step in the right direction.
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 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 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.
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 find ourselves trying to play ourselves into a playoff spot. Right now we're playing ourselves out of it.
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.
They always play us hard. They haven't taken any games off against us, and it's obvious that we have.
We knew we were getting chances. We knew if we could stick with it and get shots, we would be OK.