{"id":11417,"date":"2017-07-02T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=11417"},"modified":"2017-07-02T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:39:33","slug":"patrick-marleau-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/07\/02\/patrick-marleau-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Marleau Signs with the Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left wing\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marlepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Marleau<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>signed a three-year, $18.75 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. His contract comes with a $6.25 million average annual cap hit and he will stay with the team until 2020. Marleau has so far spent his entire 19-year NHL career with the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Leafs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Leafs<\/a> announced today the signing of F Patrick Marleau to a 3-year contract. The annual average value of the contract is $6.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/881627431521714179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Patrick Marleau Signs with the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/h2>\n<p>Marleau is headed into his 20th NHL season having played every previous game with the Sharks after being drafted by them 2nd overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft after 12-year teammate,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thornjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Thornton<\/a><\/strong>. He will turn 38 years old on September 15th. Marleau is currently on a 624-game streak, not having missed a game since his streak started on April 9th, 2009. Marleau is currently in 4th place in games played among active players. If he plays at least 70 games next season and depending on the futures of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/i\/iginlja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarome Iginla<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Shane<\/strong> <strong>Doan<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Marleau will sit right outside the top 10 all-time with time to climb even further.<\/p>\n<p>Marleau has been steadily slowing down the last three years. After a low, relative to his standards, 19 goals two years ago, Marleau produced 25 and 27 goals in the previous two seasons. He also continues to be productive at even strength as 20 of his 27 goals last season were scored 5v5, something that should be valuable to his team in the coming season. With a bit more luck on the powerplay an eight 30-goal season could be a possibility for the winger. Despite his age he continues to be one of the faster skaters in the league, although he also seemed to take a slight step down in this deparment this season. With decent linemates he should still be able to hit somewhere around 25-30 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Marleau is coming off a three-year deal signed back in January 2014 that earned him $20 million. He\u00a0is the Sharks all-time leader in almost every offensive category and can likely expect his jersey to be retired by the team when he one day hangs up his skates.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/672672152\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; height: 0; padding: 66.161616% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/672672152?et=tJZ_QbqmRq1DOec5xz5NAA&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=wnznlWiKqPXKPOSnzQ-CGSPqPZ6PJk5W6eU3YOI3RtQ=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left wing\u00a0Patrick Marleau\u00a0signed a three-year, $18.75 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. His contract comes with a $6.25 million average annual cap hit and he will stay with the team until 2020. Marleau has so far spent his entire 19-year NHL career with the San Jose Sharks. The #Leafs announced today the signing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1729,"featured_media":11466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,25,18],"tags":[38,662,331,117,72],"class_list":["post-11417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sharks","category-leafs","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-patrick-marleau","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Kyle Cushman (editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}