Confirmed Signing with Link: [SJS] Patrick Marleau signs with the Sharks (1 year, $700K)

[Mattb124]

The part that falls on PM is the way that he handcuffed the team by forcing a buyout or a trade to only SJ or a team that was 100% buying him out. He signed for three years and I’m sure the agreed upon outcome after season 2 wasn’t that.

Salty tears are salty.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Take a deep breath.

I am not bashing anybody. At the end of the day, this is just an abstract number we're talking about. Nobody is going to think differently of either player when the record changes, and it's all in good fun. I already said that days ago, here.

I do take issue with the idea that today's players have a significantly more taxing physical experience than players of the 50s and 60s, when there is a metric shit-ton of evidence to the contrary. That point simply doesn't stand. It is not true.

In regards to the point above, it is a fact that the 2005 and 2013 lockouts helped extend careers. Look at Lidstrom in 2004 versus 2006. Look at Ovechkin in 2012 versus 2013. Nobody calls that a black mark on those players, it's just a fact that it happened. Any discussion of Lidstrom's or Ovechkin's longevity as elite players has to note that they benefitted from extended breaks to recover their A-game. The same has to be noted about Marleau and any other player of that generation, not as bashing but simply as a fact.



The following is from an article written by Gordie Howe in 1967, about the reason his generation had longer hockey careers than in the past.

If you want to have the last word on this, as an expert witness contradicting Gordie Howe, go right ahead.

No the reality was you were bashing and now you're just trying to act better than that when the proof of it is in your posts. I'm not impressed by quotes again using the most extreme examples that didn't happen that often as some piece of evidence. What you call a fact previously with lockouts also applies to Gordie when he took two years off but that fact didn't apply to everyone so it's not much of a fact to take seriously much like a lot of the crap you've been saying lately.

 

[tarheelhockey]

No the reality was you were bashing and now you're just trying to act better than that when the proof of it is in your posts. I'm not impressed by quotes again using the most extreme examples that didn't happen that often as some piece of evidence. What you call a fact previously with lockouts also applies to Gordie when he took two years off but that fact didn't apply to everyone so it's not much of a fact to take seriously much like a lot of the crap you've been saying lately.

Ok, thanks

 

[ruaware41]

Gordie Howe once had a hole drilled into his skull to keep him from dying of a brain hemorrhage. He was conscious while they performed the procedure. That was when he was 21.

That was the same year he shredded the cartilage in his knee (for the first time). By the end of his career he'd had multiple major knee surgeries, at a time when they simply removed the cartilage and sewed you back up. He played over 30 years with no cartilage in either knee, and finally had double replacement surgery in retirement... a retirement forced by his inability to walk properly because his knees were simply non-functional.

He had literally hundreds of stitches in his face. In 1964 Sports Illustrated sat down with him and tried to count them all. They stopped at 300. At that time, he had lost exactly a dozen teeth (so far).

That was 16 years before he retired.

He broke his nose 14 times (that we know of).

He broke his wrists so many times that his wristbones were labeled "fragmentary", leaving him effectively a one-handed player at the end of his career. If he weren't ambidextrous that may have been career-ending by itself.

He played through a broken collarbone that went un-diagnosed, until it was broken a second time. At that point he was advised to take a couple of games off.

He played with torn cartilage in both sides of his ribcage. At the same time.

He blocked a Bobby Hull slapshot, which hurt a lot. When he went to change socks he realized that the impact had split his shin all the way down to the bone.

He blocked a different Hull slapshot, shattering his toe. Since nothing can really be done for a broken toe other than pain management, he was told to just leave his skate on (else it would swell and he'd have to leave the game).

He was kicked in the head during practice so hard that it detached a retina. He continued to play, but took it easy on the doctor's advice that another hard blow to the head would leave him permanently blind in that eye.

He also suffered another broken foot, a shoulder dislocation, and a broken ankle... that we know of.

In that context, Howe went through a span of 23 seasons where he missed 1 or fewer game in nineteen of them. In 1980, playing at age 51, he played all eighty games of the NHL season. Only 3 other players on his team matched that. They were 22, 25, and 26.

In terms of travel, Howe's career began in the era of 22-hour train rides and ended with full coast-to-coast air travel... at a time when LA-to-NYC took 8 hours, not 5.

In no aspect was the game ever easier on Howe than it was on Marleau.

Not to mention that Marleau is a no heart having soft bitch who coasts around all game standing up for no one and for nothing. When’s the last time you ever saw him roughing up a player or standing up for himself let alone a teammate? Maybe once a decade. He is one of the softest most emotionless 6’2 210lb+ players to have ever put on skates. Why he gets such a pass even with a HOF ex-teammate of his like Roenick calling him out and driving to his house basically begging him to stop playing like such a bytch and publicly blasting him as well as him getting stripped of his captaincy is absolutely baffling to me. Meanwhile a guy like Kessel gets shredded on here because he looks awkward and isn’t good looking. A little shorter and chubbier too. Probably doesn’t help.

To even put Howe and Marleau in the same sentence is an embarrassment. What made Howe’s record impressive is he earned it. The only thing impressive about Marleau breaking the record would be how he played years and years of a very soft brand of hockey yet escaped with minimal criticism for it. That’s impressive.

 

[Mafoofoo]

Not to mention that Marleau is a no heart having soft bitch who coasts around all game standing up for no one and for nothing. When’s the last time you ever saw him roughing up a player or standing up for himself let alone a teammate? Maybe once a decade. He is one of the softest most emotionless 6’2 210lb+ players to have ever put on skates. Why he gets such a pass even with a HOF ex-teammate of his like Roenick calling him out and driving to his house basically begging him to stop playing like such a bytch and publicly blasting him as well as him getting stripped of his captaincy is absolutely baffling to me. Meanwhile a guy like Kessel gets shredded on here because he looks awkward and isn’t good looking. A little shorter and chubbier too. Probably doesn’t help.

To even put Howe and Marleau in the same sentence is an embarrassment. What made Howe’s record impressive is he earned it. The only thing impressive about Marleau breaking the record would be how he played years and years of a very soft brand of hockey yet escaped with minimal criticism for it. That’s impressive.

That graphic of Patty Marleau in front of Howe when he breaks that record is gonna be so sweet.

 

[Metroid]

Nhl makes this next season 44 games

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Not to mention that Marleau is a no heart having soft bitch who coasts around all game standing up for no one and for nothing. When’s the last time you ever saw him roughing up a player or standing up for himself let alone a teammate? Maybe once a decade. He is one of the softest most emotionless 6’2 210lb+ players to have ever put on skates. Why he gets such a pass even with a HOF ex-teammate of his like Roenick calling him out and driving to his house basically begging him to stop playing like such a bytch and publicly blasting him as well as him getting stripped of his captaincy is absolutely baffling to me. Meanwhile a guy like Kessel gets shredded on here because he looks awkward and isn’t good looking. A little shorter and chubbier too. Probably doesn’t help.

To even put Howe and Marleau in the same sentence is an embarrassment. What made Howe’s record impressive is he earned it. The only thing impressive about Marleau breaking the record would be how he played years and years of a very soft brand of hockey yet escaped with minimal criticism for it. That’s impressive.

You're just clueless.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Not to mention that Marleau is a no heart having soft bitch who coasts around all game standing up for no one and for nothing. When’s the last time you ever saw him roughing up a player or standing up for himself let alone a teammate? Maybe once a decade. He is one of the softest most emotionless 6’2 210lb+ players to have ever put on skates. Why he gets such a pass even with a HOF ex-teammate of his like Roenick calling him out and driving to his house basically begging him to stop playing like such a bytch and publicly blasting him as well as him getting stripped of his captaincy is absolutely baffling to me. Meanwhile a guy like Kessel gets shredded on here because he looks awkward and isn’t good looking. A little shorter and chubbier too. Probably doesn’t help.

To even put Howe and Marleau in the same sentence is an embarrassment. What made Howe’s record impressive is he earned it. The only thing impressive about Marleau breaking the record would be how he played years and years of a very soft brand of hockey yet escaped with minimal criticism for it. That’s impressive.

How's Roenick doing nowadays? Did he get fired from somewhere else for being an idiot?

People like you make this even sweeter.