Patrice Bergeron
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"Patrice Bergeron-Cleary" is a Canada/Canadian professional ice hockey centre (ice hockey)/centre and alternate captain playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).

He played junior hockey with the Acadie–Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for one full season before being selected 45th overall by the Bruins in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He made the immediate jump from junior to the NHL after his draft and joined the Bruins in 2003–04 NHL season/2003–04. Internationally, Bergeron competes for Canada men's national ice hockey team/Team Canada and has won gold medals at the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships/2004 World Championships, 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships/2005 World Junior Championships, Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament/2010 Winter Olympics, and Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament/2014 Winter Olympics. Bergeron is the most recent member of the Triple Gold Club after he won the Stanley Cup with Boston on June 15, 2011. Bergeron scored two goals including the Stanley Cup winning goal at 14:37 of the first period of Game 7 at Vancouver. He is considered to be one of the premier two-way forwards in the game today.

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We all believed in ourselves. It was a matter of confidence and that creates a fine line between winning and losing.

You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.

He told us [our effort] was not good enough. We knew it wasn't ... after the first we kind of regrouped and told ourselves it's not over.

I think I had him (guessing) whether I was going to pass or shoot so I think I surprised him a little bit, got him moving. I'm pretty happy about it. Its a huge win for us.

Obviously, I'm coming in and want to help the team as much as I can. I want to have a good training camp and be ready for the season. It is the younger guys' turn and you just have to take your chance.

I think he'll be a factor again this time.

Oh, man, he is such a motivator. That's what he is all about. He is so intense. He is a great coach. He was so good for me.

It's the biggest win of the year. We played great for 60 minutes against an especially great team in our division.

He's really fast, he's really strong on his skates, and he loves to shoot.