Patrick Marleau’s 500 goals are a thing, to be sure. That they have all come with one team, the San Jose Sharks, is also a thing. In fact, his entire career has been a thing – a fascinating, strange, impressive, confounding and occasionally irritating thing.
Now is it a Hall of Fame thing? You’d think so at a cursory glance, and yet . . .
Marleau has never had that incandescent moment that defines his career . . . say, the one where he holds the Stanley Cup to the sky in triumph.