Huh... Well shit the bed and call me Joner. I totally didn't put that together.
Confirmed with Link: Joe Thornton announces retirement from NHL
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Can't wait for Sharks hockey to return someday
Old school would be to have a press conference with Grier announcing his retirement, not doing it in a video.
Thornton will win a cup in San Jose as a member of the front office.
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Ahh man what a goddamn f***in gem.
The only thing it would accomplish is allowing Sharks fans to buy custom sweaters with his name/number on them. The NHLPA contract allows official sales for a player's active team or the one he retired with. So you couldn't buy an official Thornton #19 from the Sharks team store now, but you could buy one from the Panthers. If he signed a 1-day contract, you'd be able to customize one like you can for Marleau or Nabokov.
I dunno if the players benefit directly from their own sweater sales, but that would be the only reason I can think of that it would matter.
Except that's not how any other player outside of i believe Gretzky, but Gretzky needed everything to be a spectacular event. Every other player pretty much announces like Thornton did.
Interesting. Then either they know more than I do or I know less than I thought.
Last I looked, though, I was trying to see if I could do an Owen Nolan 25th anniversary sweater and they wouldn't let me, so it could have changed at any point since then
With nhl.com you can customize the prime green authentic pro home jersey with any name that you want.Interesting. Then either they know more than I do or I know less than I thought.
Last I looked, though, I was trying to see if I could do an Owen Nolan 25th anniversary sweater and they wouldn't let me, so it could have changed at any point since then
If you wanted to be a really bad jersey fan you could do a McDavid sharks jersey lol.
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Demers toasting Jumbo on pregame with libation in "beard" glass (and what looks to be whiskey or something similar).
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That was a lot of fun indeed. Here's the full interview again if anybody wants to watch.
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One word: Officially retired
Thorton is old man
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I demand a statue of shirtless Jumbo outside SAP center
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I think i've told this story here before, but here we go:
*Long personal post warning*
I grew in a NYC suburb where people support a mix between the NY sports and some Boston sports. We were a Giants/Yankees/Knicks house, and I guess Rangers neither parent really liked hockey enough to push a team, so I grew up just liking hockey.
In 1997 I went to an Avs-Rangers game at the Garden and sat behind the penalty box and was witness to Patrick Roy deking Gretzky and doing the spin-0-rama at the red line. I guess I thought that was super cool (I was 6), so for my next Bday my godfather got me a signed Roy jersey. From then on I loved the Avs and went to every game they played in NY. A few years later Kirk McLean moved into the neighborhood and I became friends with his stepson. My parents must have said I was a fan of Roy and Kirk got me a personalized game-used stick.
Then in 2003, Roy retired and I was without a team. BUT, starting in 2001 or so, I was old enough to have my own video games and I had NHL Hitz 2002, which is an amazing game to this day. You could create a team in that game and use credits earned from wins to improve player stats. What you could also do is reduce player stats, accrue credits, then trade for a NHL player. IDK why, but for some reason I bought Joe Thornton off the Bruins.
I scored like a million goals with Thornton in that game, and even more in NHL Hitz 2003. Like I would only shoot with him - I was obsessed. He was becoming my new favorite player even though i never watched a Bruins game, and incidentally I hated the Sharks because i thought Ricci was so ugly lol. I finally saw the bruins play in MTL when I was up for a CANAM tournament, and Jumbo was using the stick I wanted but couldnt afford (CCM Vector IIRC). That solidified it.
Anyway, fast forward to the lockout. I'm 14 and just starting to really establish preferences for things, so I made the claim to my hockey friends I was picking a new team. Sure enough, Jumbo got traded to the Sharks and I made the decision that day to start following a new team for the rest of my life.
18 years later, i'm still obsessed and Jumbo remains my favorite player of all-time. I only ever made it to maybe 10-15 Sharks games of his, but he is the reason I will be a fan for life. He is the reason I stayed up until well after midnight to watch every game while in middle/high school/college on the east coast; he is the reason I still watch every Sharks game in a small window on my desktop during work hours; he is the reason I'll always consider repatriating and settling in the Bay Area so I can watch more Sharks games.
Thanks for everything, Jumbo. From being my hero, to my hockey role model, to a guy who constantly reminds me that hockey and hockey fandom should be fun.
*Long personal post warning*
I grew in a NYC suburb where people support a mix between the NY sports and some Boston sports. We were a Giants/Yankees/Knicks house, and I guess Rangers neither parent really liked hockey enough to push a team, so I grew up just liking hockey.
In 1997 I went to an Avs-Rangers game at the Garden and sat behind the penalty box and was witness to Patrick Roy deking Gretzky and doing the spin-0-rama at the red line. I guess I thought that was super cool (I was 6), so for my next Bday my godfather got me a signed Roy jersey. From then on I loved the Avs and went to every game they played in NY. A few years later Kirk McLean moved into the neighborhood and I became friends with his stepson. My parents must have said I was a fan of Roy and Kirk got me a personalized game-used stick.
Then in 2003, Roy retired and I was without a team. BUT, starting in 2001 or so, I was old enough to have my own video games and I had NHL Hitz 2002, which is an amazing game to this day. You could create a team in that game and use credits earned from wins to improve player stats. What you could also do is reduce player stats, accrue credits, then trade for a NHL player. IDK why, but for some reason I bought Joe Thornton off the Bruins.
I scored like a million goals with Thornton in that game, and even more in NHL Hitz 2003. Like I would only shoot with him - I was obsessed. He was becoming my new favorite player even though i never watched a Bruins game, and incidentally I hated the Sharks because i thought Ricci was so ugly lol. I finally saw the bruins play in MTL when I was up for a CANAM tournament, and Jumbo was using the stick I wanted but couldnt afford (CCM Vector IIRC). That solidified it.
Anyway, fast forward to the lockout. I'm 14 and just starting to really establish preferences for things, so I made the claim to my hockey friends I was picking a new team. Sure enough, Jumbo got traded to the Sharks and I made the decision that day to start following a new team for the rest of my life.
18 years later, i'm still obsessed and Jumbo remains my favorite player of all-time. I only ever made it to maybe 10-15 Sharks games of his, but he is the reason I will be a fan for life. He is the reason I stayed up until well after midnight to watch every game while in middle/high school/college on the east coast; he is the reason I still watch every Sharks game in a small window on my desktop during work hours; he is the reason I'll always consider repatriating and settling in the Bay Area so I can watch more Sharks games.
Thanks for everything, Jumbo. From being my hero, to my hockey role model, to a guy who constantly reminds me that hockey and hockey fandom should be fun.
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