[SIGNED] Marleau in San Jose

[LawMan]

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.

Would be interesting to see but almost impossible to implement in practice.
Joe: "You must trade me to the Bruins, Capitals, Knights, Blues or Avalanche"
GM: "Yeah, none of those teams wants you?"

/end scene.

Back on Marleau I did not realize how close he was to the all-time record. Watch the NHL announce a 42-game season.

[Rato]

What if those 5 teams refuse to trade for him?

[hockeyrobot]

Wow I had no idea he was that high on the GPs list!

[butch]

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

so did Howe come out of nhl retirement to play with his sons with the wha aeros/houston ? I'm seeing a 2 year gap after 70-71

[tweetdrivr]

Yes - he retired in 1971 and then came out of retirement to play with his sons and I believe to help the WHA out - probably had a buddy involved?