SAN JOSE, CALIF.—On the outside wall of the Delmas Market, located about two blocks southeast of the SAP Center, there adorns a giant painted mural of Joe Thornton. It’s a classic action shot of Jumbo Joe: right arm bent at a 45-degree degree angle, his hand high up on the hockey stick, his head looking up and searching for the pass.
In hockey, they call players who have high-goal, low-assist totals “Cy Young” guys. Someone with a 22-5 (for 27 points) stat line is a Cy Young guy. Thornton is the NHL’s anti-Cy Young, and don’t just take the mural on the wall at the Delmas Market as proof of that.
After Monday’s thrilling 5-4 Sharks victory over the Colorado Avalanche in which Thornton contributed three helpers, his stat line for the season read: five goals, 35 assists, 40 points. While the 34-year-old center normally scores goals at a pace better than that, the fact is Thornton, by almost all accounts, is playing as well as he ever has.
“He’s pretty amazing,” Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan tells Bleacher Report, on the afternoon of their game with Colorado. “ ...
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