Oakville High School alumnus Patrick Maroon has been inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame, following a hockey career that carried the St. Louis native to play as left wing on rinks around the country.
Maroon grew up in South St. Louis County, attending the Mehlville School District. By the time he graduated, he was still undrafted, but he eventually earned a spot in the Ontario Hockey League, a junior hockey league, with the London Knights.
His first shot in the National Hockey League (NHL) was as a sixth-round draft pick by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2007, but his “true NHL breakthrough” was when he joined the Anaheim Ducks in 2011. Maroon played for Anaheim for several years and enjoyed his best statistical seasons before coming home to the St. Louis Blues in 2018.
Maroon helped make St. Louis history during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs, when he scored a double-overtime goal in Game 7 against the Dallas Stars. A few weeks later, the Blues won the Stanley Cup.
The Oakville alum has also played for the Edmonton Oilers, the New Jersey Devils, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Minnesota Wild, the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks. He was inducted into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 4, and he was inducted into the Mehlville School District Alumni Hall of Fame in 2021.