SAN JOSE
We didn’t know exactly how the partnership would end. But not many people figured it would go this way.
Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton were the Lennon-McCartney of the Sharks. They were partners in making great music and winning bigly, even if they were never able to win it all. But working together, not always on the same line but 99 percent of the time on the top power play unit, they became the No. 1 and No. 2 scorers in franchise history. That will always be their legacy.
Now half the legacy will write his last hockey songs in another country.