SAN JOSE — Joe Thornton has just come off the ice after an optional team skate Sunday morning and is taping a stick inside the Sharks’ dressing room, getting it ready for the following day’s game with the Florida Panthers.
Patrick Marleau is close by, helping one of his sons put some hockey equipment as they get ready to join a couple of the Sharks players still on the ice at the end of the informal practice.
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Neither Thornton or Marleau, understandably at this particular moment, are giving much thought to the Feb. 24 NHL trade deadline and whether there’s a possibility of either of them will be playing elsewhere this season to chase a Stanley Cup.