Joe Thornton appreciation thread

[Barrie22]

Even as thorntons biggest fan here this still made me laugh.

Thornton 1st line winger on the leafs. Will be lining up with mathews and marner.

 

[Chaotic8]

In some crazy fashion I can see it working. Sure the big guy has lost a step or 5, but his passing game is still amongst the best. Let the kids take the rush, old man Jumbo lumbers in and works the corners. It'll be in interesting dynamic that's for sure.

 

[Barrie22]

Thornton comes back from injury and scores and adds a assist in a period and a half.

 

[JeremyTB]

Thornton comes back from injury and scores and adds a assist in a period and a half.

As much as I wanted him to stay with the Sharks, I am glad for his sake he moved on and will get to play more meaningful games in his career and have a shot at a Stanley Cup. It would be a tragedy to have him finish is career in San Jose with the way the team is right now.

 

[Barrie22]

As much as I wanted him to stay with the Sharks, I am glad for his sake he moved on and will get to play more meaningful games in his career and have a shot at a Stanley Cup. It would be a tragedy to have him finish is career in San Jose with the way the team is right now.

Agreed. Just wish he had gone to a team that i can actually cheer for.

 

[fasterthanlight]

Leafs are annoying but I am definitely rooting for them.

edit: joe's on line 1? that's f***ing awesome.

 

[JeremyTB]

Jumbo with 3 pts in the 1st period tonight. Mathews has 16 goals already.

 

[Barrie22]

Smart play letting thornton walk and keeping the useless marleau.

 

[seroes]

Jumbo has still got it.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Smart play letting thornton walk and keeping the useless marleau.

Helps the tank

 

[Karl Prime]

Jumbo has still got it.

He's still got it but playing with Matthews and Marner seems to have given him lots of motivation and youthful enthusiasm. He wouldn't be putting up the same production in SJ if he were with Hertl and Labanc for instance.

 

[JeremyTB]

He's still got it but playing with Matthews and Marner seems to have given him lots of motivation and youthful enthusiasm. He wouldn't be putting up the same production in SJ if he were with Hertl and Labanc for instance.

Which makes you wonder if the last couple years has been Thornton just not having it anymore or him just not having much talent around him.

 

[seroes]

Which makes you wonder if the last couple years has been Thornton just not having it anymore or him just not having much talent around him.

It was a bit of both. His skating is shot and he can no longer carry a line. But Mathews and Marner are better than anyone on our team. They carry the line and draw focus allowing Jumbo to just do his setup thing. The majority of his shifts start in the o zone. I guess I know what time I'm rooting for once we get eliminated.

 

[Barrie22]

It was a bit of both. His skating is shot and he can no longer carry a line. But Mathews and Marner are better than anyone on our team. They carry the line and draw focus allowing Jumbo to just do his setup thing. The majority of his shifts start in the o zone. I guess I know what time I'm rooting for once we get eliminated.

He showed it last year that he still could contribute good numbers when couture and hertl went down and he became a top 6 center again and was taken away from sorrenson and the other garbage he was with.

 

[Karl Prime]

Which makes you wonder if the last couple years has been Thornton just not having it anymore or him just not having much talent around him.

True, but it was only two years ago he was .70 PPG playing 3rd line and PP, though on a better and deeper team. Leafs fans should have expected him to mesh well with Matthews and Marner - after all his playmaking and vision doesn't go away with age. I wonder how Marleau would do if he played alongside Marchand and Pastrnak for example.

 

[TheBeard]

Thunder Joe for IR65

Who says no?

 

[sharski]

I like jumbo so much that the leafs could reverse sweep the sharks in the finals with jumbo scoring the cup-winning goal in OT of game 7 and I wouldn't even be mad















Ok I'd be a little mad

 

[seroes]

Thunder Joe for IR65

Who says no?

Not us.

 

[Levie]

Smart play letting thornton walk and keeping the useless marleau.

Acting like Thornton wanted to sign here. The team isn't a cup contender and he wanted his possible final year in the league to be in the postseason.

 

[Lebanezer]

Thunder Joe for IR65

Who says no?

How much of Thornton's salary are they retaining?

 

[Jwec]

Acting like Thornton wanted to sign here. The team isn't a cup contender and he wanted his possible final year in the league to be in the postseason.

The way he is playing this won't be his final year tho. But I doubt he would return to San Jose as a player. He will probably re-sign with Leafs next summer.

 

[LeeIFBB]

amazing what getting out from under a loser like wilson can do for a player

 

[one2gamble]

The way he is playing this won't be his final year tho. But I doubt he would return to San Jose as a player. He will probably re-sign with Leafs next summer.

Jumbo will be putting up points next to those two until hes 50

 

[Levie]

amazing what getting out from under a loser like wilson can do for a player

Really shows how bad our forward core is when Thornton and pavelski flourish after leaving it. We literally have zero gamebreakers in the position just a ton of complementary players who can't drive their own line. Hertl used to be that but he hasnt shown it and he was never in the class of a guy like Mathews or marner.

 

[FunkyPhin]

Thornton is by far my favourite hockey player ever. I am so f***ing happy he's tearing it up with the leafs, I wish him nothing but success and hope they win a cup.