Joel Ward signed on with the Sharks prior to the 2015-16 season and since then has scored 68 points in 143 games. That’s a rate of 0.48 points per game, which is a career high for Ward, who tallied 0.43 points per game in Nashville and 0.44 points per game in Washington. And yet. And yet.
This season he’s tallying 0.39 points per game at the ripe age of 36 years old. Kinda weird no one talks about Ward’s age when putting into context how effective an NHL player he is, huh? Or how physical a game he plays or how hard he continues to work down low when considering how tough the journey was to get to 660 games played.