Patrick Marleau Quotations

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.

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.

We took some bad penalties, penalties at the wrong time, anyway.

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).

I think our team can do a better job staying out of the box, but our power play came up huge.

We have to learn from it, but we can't dwell on it. We have to go get two points in Calgary.

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'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.

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 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 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.

They always play us hard. They haven't taken any games off against us, and it's obvious that we have.

It's just a great time of the year. Everybody is pulling for each other, and everybody is working together to get the job done. When we're playing well, you can see the extra effort in everything we do.

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.

It's going to be a good test for our club coming off two poor performances. Instead of backpedaling, hopefully we can start moving in the right direction.

Everyone in our division knows how tight the race is so those games are that much tighter. It's a challenge every night for Joe and myself. We have to look at it like that and have fun with it.

It's great. We know it's always like that in the playoffs.

It was good to come out and get that three-goal lead like that. We had some more chances after that.

The last couple of games we haven't done the things we need to do to win games and that's got to stop.

I learned so much - a lot of hockey things, but probably the biggest was the work ethic that Kelly would bring. Kelly told me he would do it for me, and make sure that some day, you do it for somebody else.

In the third, we didn't come out and play to get the win.

I can't believe it went right into the net. I went to make a move and all of a sudden I hit it straight in. There were a couple of hits on my stick, but it shouldn't matter.

I can't believe it went right in the net. I don't know what to say. I thought I was going to pick it up and go behind the net. I went to make a move, and all of a sudden I hit it straight in.

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

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.