Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot and who's not. Today's list includes tho...
Joe Thornton was disappointed the Sharks didn’t deal him to a contender, acknowledging time is running out on hoisting the Stanley Cup.
He only has himself to blame though. Thornton was a free agent, and he could have bailed for a Cup contender but he was adamant he wasn’t in the game of chasing a Cup like, Jarome Iginla was at the end of his career.
But now maybe there is a tinge of regret with the Sharks, who are completely in a re-tooling or re-build or whatever term teams want to use to say they’re sucking now to win later.
Thornton also wasn’t giving a lot of options to the Sharks, with a handful of teams on his list he’d play for.
Those teams either weren’t interested or filled a need in other ways on Monday’s deadline day.
And it’s hard to see contenders looking for a slower, less effective Thornton when he turns 41 this summer.
He could go down as the second best to never win a cup, right behind Marcel Dionne.
