{"id":50088,"date":"2019-10-08T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=50088"},"modified":"2019-10-08T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T22:41:34","slug":"patrick-marleau-signs-with-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/10\/08\/patrick-marleau-signs-with-san-jose-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Marleau Signs With San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have signed free-agent center <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> to a contract. It is a one-year deal worth $700,000. Marleau became a UFA after being bought out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on June 28th.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HE&#8217;S BACK IN TEAL!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, Patrick Marleau! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jyFczqWrJy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jyFczqWrJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/1181698499487813633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">$700,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v1cQSyNyxm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/v1cQSyNyxm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/1181700454234935296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0Patrick Marleau Joins Sharks<\/h2>\n<h3>Marleau<\/h3>\n<p>Over his 21-year NHL career Marleau\u00a0has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. He has put up 551\u00a0goals and 615\u00a0assists for 1166\u00a0career points in 1657\u00a0career games. Marleau also has 72 goals and 55 assists for 127 career Stanley Cup Playoff points in 191 career games. He was originally drafted second\u00a0overall of the 1997\u00a0NHL Draft by the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 16 goals and 21 assists for 37 points. He also added 28 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.3 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -1.9. Marleau also added two assists in seven Stanley Cup Playoff games last season.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>After being traded to the Leafs and then bought out by the Hurricanes the future was unclear for Marleau until now. There is no question that Marleau still has some gas in the tank after putting up 16 goals last season. He can still be a guy who can be a third or fourth-line winger if he&#8217;s not playing up the middle. The Sharks originally didn&#8217;t plan on signing him but injuries have seemed to change their minds on that. With such a cheap deal it will be easy to fit him under the cap.<\/p>\n<p>With his experience, Marleau would be a great player to have in the locker room to help and mentor younger players. He also would be a huge help with playoff experience if his new club qualified for the playoffs next season.\u00a0Expect this to be Marleau&#8217;s farewell tour in the NHL after 21 years in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"oiK1lfywQP1STrk67dvbdA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1135405804\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'oiK1lfywQP1STrk67dvbdA',sig:'s-O89vuHJ2Og-BPYYiK4yl50dU3zFW_N6c6NdKxQ_zs=',w:'594px',h:'487px',items:'1135405804',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have signed free-agent center Patrick Marleau to a contract. It is a one-year deal worth $700,000. Marleau became a UFA after being bought out by the Carolina Hurricanes on June 28th. HE&#8217;S BACK IN TEAL! Welcome back, Patrick Marleau! pic.twitter.com\/jyFczqWrJy \u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) October 8, 2019 $700,000. https:\/\/t.co\/v1cQSyNyxm \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":50209,"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],"tags":[955,331],"class_list":["post-50088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sharks","tag-nhl-news","tag-patrick-marleau"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}