Chicago – Pat Maron He played his first match and his last game at the United Center.
Between them, it was a big journey.
Maron closed its fourteenth and last season when Chicago Black Hook I lost Winbig the planes In an exchange of shooting Saturday night. Join the defender Alec MartinezWhich made Chicago’s final home its last match.
While Blackhawks has two history on the remaining road in their schedule, Maroon and Martinez go to retirement.
“It is absorbed, because this is all that we knew,” Maroun said. “But I am very happy that I got her participation with Marti tonight. A man is a big player, great goals. Helli’s hell, competitor.”
Maron and Martinez started their last matches. Greetings Blackhawks Maron with a Highlight the video During the first period, and Do the same thing Martinez in the third.
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The crowd responded with applause standing after each greeting. Maroun passionately waved and his heart was appreciated, Martinez waved and grabbed his stick in the air.
After the match ended, the aircraft stuck to the presence of a handshake line with the winners of the Stanley Cup three times. Then Maron and Martinez embraced, waving their families in the crowd chanting and embracing again before leaving the ice.
“Every profession ends,” Maroun said. “It does not last forever.”
Maron, a 37 -year -old citizen of Saint Louis, signed a $ 1.3 million contract with Chicago at a free agency last summer. The rough striker announced last month that he intends to retire after this season, but he waited until Saturday to reveal that the conclusion of the house would be his last match.
“It was great. Such a fun person is present,” Blackhawks forward Conor Beddard He said. “It is clear that his experience in the league … can teach us a lot of things. But I only think the laugh he brings and the energy he brings to the room, he is just a man everyone wants to be in.”
Maron was chosen by Philadelphia in the sixth round of the 2007 draft. It was traded to Anheim in 2010 and presented for the first time in NHL in the loss of Ducks’s Shootout in Chicago on October 25, 2011.
Maron Blues helped his hometown to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the date of the concession in 2019. Tamba Bay of Lightning In 2020 and 21.
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He became the fourth player in the history of NHL and the first since 1964 wins a three -year -old cup with two teams. He finished his career with 126 goals and 197 passes in 848 games in the normal season, and also played with Edmonton, New Jersey, Minnesota and Boston.
“I was lucky to do what I liked to live for a long time,” Maroun said. “When I look back in my career when all of this is done, I will look back at the bad times that I went through in Felie to where I got to where I am today.”
Maron left open the possibility of hockey on the road, but he was not ready to think about it yet.
“So far, my focus is the family,” he said. “My wife is due on any day now. So we will focus on that, focus on returning to Tampa, stability in everything, and what is our next step.”
The 37 -year -old Martinez, who won everything with Los Angeles twice and Jegas once, joined Chicago at a free agency on July 1. He got 88 goals and 201 in 862 regular season.
Martinez had one of the biggest moments of his career against Blackhawks. He scored in additional time when Los Angeles Chicago canceled 5-4 victory in game 7 of the 2014 Western Conference Final.
