Riders rent reduction a 'contractual matter', no legal threat: Reynolds
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The $1.33M rent reduction comes from what the club owed during seasons impacted by the pandemic.
Joe Thornton was disappointed the San Jose Sharks didn’t deal him to a contender at the NHL trade deadline, acknowledging time is running out on hoisting the Stanley Cup.
He only has himself to blame, though. Thornton was a free agent, and he could have bailed for a Cup contender but he was adamant he wasn’t in the game of chasing a Cup like Jarome Iginla was at the end of his career.
But now maybe there is a tinge of regret with the Sharks, who are completely in a retooling or rebuild or whatever term teams want to use to say they’re sucking now to win later.
Thornton also wasn’t giving a lot of options to the Sharks, with a handful of teams on his list he’d play for. Those teams either weren’t interested or filled a need in other ways at Monday’s deadline.
And it’s hard to see contenders looking for a slower, less-effective Thornton when he turns 41 this summer.
He could go down as the second-best to never win a Cup, right behind Marcel Dionne.