SAN JOSE — San Jose Sharks icon Joe Thornton now has an official title with the team he starred on for 15 seasons. The Sharks ...

The San Jose Sharks have (officially) landed Joe Thornton. After a couple years of “Jumbo” unofficially helping the Sharks in ...

Joe Thornton, formerly with the Boston Bruins, adjusts a San Jose Sharks jersey during a news conference in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Dec 1, 2005. The Sharks acquired Thornton, ...

One of the greatest playmakers in NHL history, Joe Thornton played 15 of his 24 seasons with the San Jose Sharks ...

But Thornton’s greatness as one of the NHL’s best to ever play, and his ranking as No. 32 on our list of the best players of the NHL’s modern era, is not dependent on whether the now 43-year ...

Joe Thornton’s Sharks legacy one of joy, and heartbreak: ‘It was so close, but so far away’ Thornton returns to SAP Center on Tuesday when the Florida Panthers play the San Jose Sharks ...

Joe Thornton waves to the crowd during his jersey retirement ceremony at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) ...

Joe Thornton’s arrival to the Sharks nearly 15 years ago started not with a bang, but a ping. In his first shift in a teal sweater on Dec. 2, 2005 in Buffalo, ...

Thornton has made over $107 million in his career. I know it’s easy for me to say but if he had to take, for example, a one-year, $1 million contract, I think he’d be just fine with that.

SAN JOSE, CA - MARCH 6: San Jose Sharks' Joe Thornton helps Selena Urban, 17, on to the ice to take a photograph with the team at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, March 6, 2020.

That is Joe Thornton. Trent Yawney, assistant coach, San Jose Sharks, 2008-11: I had my son at the arena around Christmas. Prior to a game, he was playing ball hockey in the dressing room by himself.

Though moments like this are rare, Joe Thornton is unsettled. The normally easy-going, and immensely talented playmaker is sitting in the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, a building that has since been ...