After 726 NHL games, former Sharks wing Joel Ward is hanging up his skates. The 39-year-old made the announcement in a Players' Tribune piece published on Monday.
— Joel Ward (@JRandalWard42) April 27, 2020
Ward played 209 games across three seasons with San Jose, and waxed poetic about his time in the Bay Area in the essay.
Then there’s San Jose, and everything that place has meant to me.
That isn’t one image, really. It’s more like a feeling.
I miss that group so much already. I miss how much fun it was to come to the rink every day.