"He made me feel pretty comfortable when I first got here," Patrick said. "For both of us the start of the year, we both had to work through quite a bit. So it was staying positive with each other. And we were honest with each other about how we were playing. And then when he got going there I was just telling him to keep going, keep playing the way he is. And the same thing for me. So it obviously is pretty special to have a friend like him on the team."