(1979-09-15) September 15, 1979 (age 44) Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight
215 lb (98 kg; 15 st 5 lb)
Position
Centre / Left wing
Shot
Left
Played for
San Jose Sharks Toronto Maple Leafs Pittsburgh Penguins
National team
Canada
NHL draft
2nd overall, 1997 San Jose Sharks
Playing career
1997–2021
Patrick Denis Marleau (born September 15, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. With 1,779 NHL games played, he is the all-time leader in regular season games played in league history. He passed the record previously held by Gordie Howe in his 1,768th game on April 19, 2021. Marleau scored 1,197 points during his entire NHL career. The San Jose Sharks drafted Marleau second overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, and Marleau spent the vast majority of his NHL career with the franchise, becoming its all-time leader in goals, even strength goals, power play goals, points, shots, and games played. Marleau is also the fourth player in National Hockey League history to record 900 consecutive games played, reaching the mark one game after breaking the overall games played record. He was the third-last active player who played in the NHL in the 1990s.
Marleau is one of just five NHL players to play 1,400 games with one team, and the youngest to reach both the 1,300- and 1,400-game marks. He was seven games short of becoming the youngest player to play in 1,500 games with one team before signing with his second team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, in 2017. After two seasons with Toronto, he returned to San Jose in 2019, and was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins before the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs. After failing to win a Stanley Cup, Marleau returned to the Sharks as a free agent for the 2020–21 season, his final season. Marleau holds the distinction of playing the most NHL games (both regular season and playoffs) without winning the Stanley Cup, an active streak as of the end of the 2022–23 season.
Internationally, Marleau won gold medals with Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. Marleau, one of the most important players of the Sharks for nearly 20 seasons, was known as one of the fastest skaters in the NHL and exhibited a high standard of playing ability combined with gentlemanly conduct. This earned him two nominations for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy and made him a popular player both among fans and his professional peers.
Patrick Denis Marleau (born September 15, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. With 1,779 NHL games played, he is the all-time...
was stripping PatrickMarleau of the captaincy and assigning it to the newly re-signed Rob Blake. One reason for the move was that Marleau was named captain...
Toskala earned a shutout in the Sharks 3–0 victory. San Jose captain PatrickMarleau scored twice in game three as the Sharks won 4–1. Nashville attempted...
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Louis Blues. After the game, however, one of the goals was awarded to PatrickMarleau, when it had been originally attributed to Pavelski. During the 2012–13...
Draft. The draft choice used to select Jarvis was acquired along with PatrickMarleau and a seventh-round draft pick from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange...
three after coming back from a two-goal deficit in the third period, PatrickMarleau scored the overtime-winner for San Jose at 7:07 of the first overtime...
first time in franchise history. PatrickMarleau scored a hat-trick in a 5–2 Sharks victory in game one. In game two, Marleau scored late in the second period...
second-round draft pick to the Ottawa Senators. Thornton, Heatley, and PatrickMarleau were joined on the Sharks' top line and enjoyed immediate offensive...
(2014) 41 years, 335 days – Alex Delvecchio (1973) 41 years, 242 days – PatrickMarleau (2021) 41 years, 220 days – Adam Oates (2004) 41 years, 156 days –...
third period of game two off of Ryan Kesler's two goals, but then PatrickMarleau tied the game with 55 seconds left in regulation and Raffi Torres scored...
with a power play goal by Tomas Hertl at 3:02 and the tying goal by PatrickMarleau at 18:12. Despite 18 third-period Pittsburgh shots directed towards...
win for the Stars to take a 2–0 lead in the series. In game three, after Patrick Sharp scored two goals in the first period for the Stars, the Wild scored...
on Kings goalie Jonathan Quick and an empty netter. In game three, PatrickMarleau scored at 6:20 into overtime to give San Jose a 4–3 victory. However...
all-time NHL games played record of 1,767 was only surpassed in 2021 by PatrickMarleau. In 2017, Howe was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players". Howe...
2019, that sent a sixth-round pick in 2020 to Toronto in exchange for PatrickMarleau, a seventh-round pick in 2020 and this pick (being conditional at the...
Giroux in 2012 to score a hat trick and three assists. In game three, PatrickMarleau scored twice for the Maple Leafs in a 4–2 victory. Pastrnak assisted...
Ansar (May 4, 2010). "Red Wings in 3–0 hole against Sharks after PatrickMarleau scores in overtime". mlive.com. Retrieved March 12, 2018. Hunter, Brian...
two-game suspension, while PatrickMarleau's streak ended at 910 games with his retirement. During his consecutive games streak, Marleau broke the NHL all-time...
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