SAN JOSE — Center Chris Tierney was asked the same question everyone else was posed after the Sharks’ first Training Camp practice Friday:
“Is it weird not having Patrick Marleau out there?”
And Tierney gave the same response, give or take, as everyone else:
“Yeah. It’s weird not seeing his face here every day.”
But as Tierney continued his reasonable and well-thought-through response, he couldn’t help but stare intently at the wall above the lockers opposite his dressing room stall. He locked eyes with a large goal-celebration photo, featuring Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton… And Marleau.