Off-day “oh yeah, I forgot about that guy” post. Patrick Marleau was a Penguin for 8 games in the 2019-20 season and 4 playoff games before the Pens were swept by Montreal in the COVID bubble. He registered 1 goal and 1 assist during his time with the team.

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1. I submit Brenden Morrow to the list.

2. Patrick Marleau, mostly remembered for his time in Carolina and Pittsburgh

3. I still wonder what might have been that season had COVID not fucked it up.

4. Just for the record, they did not get swept

5. he couldn’t have played 4 playoff games if they got swept. it was a best of 5

6. He’s in the same tier as Penguins legends Jerome Iginla & Douglas Murray

7. I’d love to forget that Marleau played for the Pens. When he did play for them it was as if he forgot how to play ironically

8. A better Pen than Reilly Smith.

   Edit: Spelling

9. One of the forgetful trades in team history

10. Dmitry Kulikov was a penguin before he joined the Panthers that won b2b cups

11. Ugh, don’t want to remember that season, honestly.  Firing a bunch of good coaches, most notably defenseman whisperer Sergei Gonchar, and keeping Sully was stupid as fuck then and has proved stupid as fuck since.  

    Montreal making the playoffs led to memes aplenty, then they took a shit on the Penguins.  It’s one of the most humiliating series in franchise history.  

12. I totally forgot we ever had him lmao

13. Jersey in the rafters with 87 and 71

14. Pens legend Patrick Marleau

15. I’ll always say Marleau wasn’t bad at first. Then the shut down and it was like it took too long for his 40 year old body to ramp up again. Not enough of a training camp and he was shot.

16. Sullivan should have been fired after that series

17. One of the worst penguins I ever saw. Was he 40? Sure! But man was he awful

18. Should be called the Iginla Award

19. I traded for him in at least 5 different NHL games because the Sharks always put him on the trade block. It was funny to me when he actually suited up for us for real.

20. Bullshit wildcard games for a team that shouldn’t have been able to even play in playoffs.

21. I actually drove up from Virginia to see the Hurricanes game which he scored his first in Pens gear. Then I drove home two days later and the radio broadcast was saying that people should quarantine if they have been in large crowds lmao

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