Joe Thornton’s beard is no more.
In a video posted by the San Jose Sharks on Saturday, a bearded Thornton is standing next to his daughter at their South Bay home. Ayla then folds her arms and bows her head and voila! Her dad’s beard disappears.
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The last time Thornton, 40, shaved his prodigious beard was right before the 2018-19 season when, at a team gathering at Brent Burns’ house, the decision was made to remove the long whiskers. The beard had been in place since the 2015-16 season, when Thornton and Burns were the ones to that began to grow out their facial hair, dubbed “lifestyle beards.