[SIGNED] Marleau in San Jose

[tweetdrivr]

Classy move once again by the Sharks. League min deal so he can retire a Shark - as it should be.

https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/st...47867992309760

[PenguinHunter]

Nice... retire a Shark... or win the cup as a Shark? haha

[Belexus75]

Nice... retire a Shark... or win the cup as a Shark? haha

well the way he is going he may have 10 more of those deals so you never know lol

im surprised TBH, i can see him retire tomorrow...

[Eskimo Brother]

He'll get traded at the deadline again

[PenguinHunter]

Marleau is 44 games away from tying Gordie Howes' all time games played record.

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He'll get traded at the deadline again

To the Flyers and win his cup!!

[Belexus75]

i did not know that...well forget it, he aint going to retire prior to the season

Marleau is 44 games away from tying Gordie Howes' all time games played record.

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To the Flyers and win his cup!!

[Dr.Brad]

i did not know that...well forget it, he aint going to retire prior to the season

it would be the honorable thing to retire 44 games in, but let’s just hope he can avoid collisions with Ryan Reaves and/or Tom Wilson for that long. :-)

[Pengwin7]

Wow... apparently everybody hits a wall at 1700 games played:
http://www.espn.com/nhl/history/lead...at/gamesplayed

IDK... sort of like the list as is.

Games Played Leaders
1 Gordie Howe 1,767
2 Mark Messier 1,756
3 Jaromir Jagr 1,733
4 Ron Francis 1,731
5 PATRICK MARLEAU 1,723
6 Mark Recchi 1,652
7 Chris Chelios 1,651
8 Dave Andreychuk 1,639
9 JOE THORNTON 1,636
10 Scott Stevens 1,635
11 Larry Murphy 1,615
12 Ray Bourque 1,612
13 Nicklas Lidstrom 1,564
14 Jarome Iginla 1,554
15 ZDENO CHARA 1,553
16 Alex Delvecchio 1,550
17 Johnny Bucyk 1,540
Shane Doan 1,540
19 Brendan Shanahan 1,524
20 Matt Cullen 1,516
21 Steve Yzerman 1,514
22 Mike Modano 1,499
23 Phil Housley 1,495
24 Wayne Gretzky 1,487
25 Rod Brind'Amour 1,484


btw - What was the NHL season length in Howe's days... it was obviously something much less than 82gp.

[tweetdrivr]

Howe's games played numbers by season...
His time in the WHA is not counted in the 1,767

1946-47 18 DET NHL 58
1947-48 19 DET NHL 60
1948-49 20 DET NHL 40
1949-50 21 DET NHL 70
1950-51 22 DET NHL 70
1951-52 23 DET NHL 70
1952-53 24 DET NHL 70
1953-54 25 DET NHL 70
1954-55 26 DET NHL 64
1955-56 27 DET NHL 70
1956-57 28 DET NHL 70
1957-58 29 DET NHL 64
1958-59 30 DET NHL 70
1959-60 31 DET NHL 70
1960-61 32 DET NHL 64
1961-62 33 DET NHL 70
1962-63 34 DET NHL 70
1963-64 35 DET NHL 69
1964-65 36 DET NHL 70
1965-66 37 DET NHL 70
1966-67 38 DET NHL 69
1967-68 39 DET NHL 74
1968-69 40 DET NHL 76
1969-70 41 DET NHL 76
1970-71 42 DET NHL 63
1973-74 45 HSA WHA 70
1974-75 46 HSA WHA 75
1975-76 47 HSA WHA 78
1976-77 48 HSA WHA 62
1977-78 49 NEW WHA 76
1978-79 50 NEW WHA 58
1979-80 51 HAR NHL 80

[STONE.]

Wow... apparently everybody hits a wall at 1700 games played:
http://www.espn.com/nhl/history/lead...at/gamesplayed

IDK... sort of like the list as is.

Games Played Leaders
1 Gordie Howe 1,767
2 Mark Messier 1,756
3 Jaromir Jagr 1,733
4 Ron Francis 1,731
5 PATRICK MARLEAU 1,723
6 Mark Recchi 1,652
7 Chris Chelios 1,651
8 Dave Andreychuk 1,639
9 JOE THORNTON 1,636
10 Scott Stevens 1,635
11 Larry Murphy 1,615
12 Ray Bourque 1,612
13 Nicklas Lidstrom 1,564
14 Jarome Iginla 1,554
15 ZDENO CHARA 1,553
16 Alex Delvecchio 1,550
17 Johnny Bucyk 1,540
Shane Doan 1,540
19 Brendan Shanahan 1,524
20 Matt Cullen 1,516
21 Steve Yzerman 1,514
22 Mike Modano 1,499
23 Phil Housley 1,495
24 Wayne Gretzky 1,487
25 Rod Brind'Amour 1,484


btw - What was the NHL season length in Howe's days... it was obviously something much less than 82gp.

Interesting that #11 Messier ended things 11 games short. Apropos perhaps? I don't remember the end for Mess clearly, but seems he could've signed on for one more...
Jagr didn't really get the chance. I think Marleau plays it out--although if COVID shortens the season, it could be tough. He did lose a fair number of games due to lockouts/COVID compared to Howe.

Does this mean Jumbo is coming back for one more in SJ as well?

[PenguinHunter]

Interesting that #11 Messier ended things 11 games short. Apropos perhaps? I don't remember the end for Mess clearly, but seems he could've signed on for one more...
Jagr didn't really get the chance. I think Marleau plays it out--although if COVID shortens the season, it could be tough. He did lose a fair number of games due to lockouts/COVID compared to Howe.

Does this mean Jumbo is coming back for one more in SJ as well?

I heard that he will re-sign and they are just working on a new clause that we have not seen before.

Its called a MMC - 'Must Move Clause' - and basically its a clause that at the trade deadline if Thornton is not confident that the Sharks are a legit playoff contender then he submits a list of 5 teams and the Sharks must move him to one of those said teams. The Must Move Clause once initiated and the player is traded to one of the 5 teams... automatically transforms in to a Full NMC. This would prevent the General Managers from sneakily pulling a 3-way trade and Thornton end up on a non-playoff team.

[tweetdrivr]

Interesting that #11 Messier ended things 11 games short. Apropos perhaps? I don't remember the end for Mess clearly, but seems he could've signed on for one more...
Jagr didn't really get the chance. I think Marleau plays it out--although if COVID shortens the season, it could be tough. He did lose a fair number of games due to lockouts/COVID compared to Howe.

Does this mean Jumbo is coming back for one more in SJ as well?

He stopped playing at the end of the 03-04 season. 04-05 was wiped out by the lockout. So to come back he would have had to come back after a year off. He is also quoted at the time of his official announcement in 2005...
"I never thought about any individual records," Messier said.
"Coming back to break any records, especially that record wasn't
all that appealing to me."

[2014olympicgold]

I think it's a bit of lip service to a fanbase who really only had an overpayment to Labanc, then traded for Dubnyk.

[hockeymanG23]

I heard that he will re-sign and they are just working on a new clause that we have not seen before.

Its called a MMC - 'Must Move Clause' - and basically its a clause that at the trade deadline if Thornton is not confident that the Sharks are a legit playoff contender then he submits a list of 5 teams and the Sharks must move him to one of those said teams. The Must Move Clause once initiated and the player is traded to one of the 5 teams... automatically transforms in to a Full NMC. This would prevent the General Managers from sneakily pulling a 3-way trade and Thornton end up on a non-playoff team.

Is this for real? If so I like the creativity of it.

[jdreed3184]

Is this for real? If so I like the creativity of it.

At first, I was like, "this is fake"....

And then I was like "maybe...."