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The Vancouver Maroons select LW/C Patrick Marleau



Marleau brings a hell of a lot to the table, and can be very useful to the team in a variety of ways.

Versatility:

He plays center and left wing, and will always be an extra guy on the ice who can take faceoffs. I can slot him in on basically every line and he can play in any role or situation.

Size:

6'2" 220 pounds

Skating:

Is blessed with great speed and can catch defenders off guard by blazing right by them. -THN

Defense:

Great two-way forward... has defensive acumen. -THN

Centre Patrick Marleau has shown flashes of brilliance while refining his consistency and defensive play... a responsible defensive player... -Legends of Hockey

Penalty Killing:

Marleau has been the #1 penalty killing forward on his team for the last 3 years, during which time he has finished top-10 in shorthanded goals twice (2nd and 3rd)

Time-on-Ice

As such a useful player, it's no surprise that he sees the sort of ice time he does. Over the last 8 years, Marleau has been top-3 in TOI amongst San Jose forwards ever year, and led the team for 4 out of the last 5 years. This is on a team that has arguably been the most dominant regular season team over that stretch.

TOI amongst forwards on his team: 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd
Short-Handed TOI amongst forwards on his team: 1st, 1st, 1st
Power Play TOI amongst forwards on his team: 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd

In 2010, I believe he had the 3rd most TOI amongst all Team Canada forwards during the Olympics. This was on the Gold Medal winning team.

Offensive Production:

A very steady goal scorer who has great hands and a good amount of skill compared to most of the similar available players.

Marleau has 8 seasons with 25 or more goals, and 7 seasons with 28 or more goals.

He's had 5 seasons where he's been around top-20 in goals, including a 44 goal campaign that was the 4th highest in the league (4th, 11th, 17th, 21st, 23rd). Those last 3 finishes are a lot more impressive in today's NHL than they are in the O6 era imo.

His % of Goals to the 2nd place finisher are: 86, 83, 74, 68, 64, 63, 58, 51

His % of Points to the 2nd place finisher are: 76, 70, 68, 66, 65, 61, 55, 50

Here is how that the points% compares to Clark Gillies and Brian Propp, for context.

Marleau: 76, 70, 68, 66, 65, 61, 55, 50
Propp: 76, 75, 74, 68, 65, 63, 63, 63, 60, 52, 50
Gillies: 70, 69, 58, 52, 51

Better than Gillies, and not too far off from Propp.

*Note that 50% was the cut-off figure for inclusion, this was to no ones advantage.*
*Note that I removed Gretzky and Lemieux when calculating the percentages, this was to Propp's advantage*