The Anaheim Ducks have enjoyed the big-body presence Patrick Maroon provides to the team. In fact, he’s been helping clear some space for Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on the team’s first line. Unfortunately for both the Ducks and Maroon, he’ll be out four weeks after suffering a sprained MCL after he was on the receiving end of a low hit from Buffalo Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges.
The Ducks have signed left wing Patrick Maroon to a three-year contract extension through the 2017-18 NHL season. Per club policy, no financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Yet, Patrick Maroon is putting together an exceptional playoff run, which is reflective of his development this season. He’s giving new meaning to the term ‘Being a maroon’.
Maroon, 26, operates both as a 230-pound wrecking ball and as a scorer. After he produced seven 20-plus-goals seasons in the minors, he so firmly secured a role with the Ducks that the team traded away Dustin Penner in March.
Maroon grinned. At least Doughty knew his resume: five full seasons in the American Hockey League, including separate stints with organizations that changed cities. He’s played in Texarkana, St. Louis, London, Philadelphia, Adirondack, Syracuse and Norfolk. It takes more than chirping to get Maroon rattled.
Anaheim Ducks winger Patrick Maroon has 77 games of NHL experience, yet he already understands pro hockey is a business where one player’s misery becomes another player’s opportunity.
The puck dropped onto the ice at Pepsi Center on an October night and Pat Maroon was planted with his Ducks teammates on the bench as he awaited his first shift against the Colorado Avalanche.
Anaheim Ducks forward and St. Louis native Pat Maroon was oh-so-close to playing his first game against the Blues last March. But after arriving in town, the Ducks adjusted their roster and Maroon, an emergency call-up at the time, was sent back to the American Hockey League.
Ducks’ forward Patrick Maroon missed a chance to play in his hometown of St. Louis last season when he was reassigned to Norfolk the day before a matchup with the Blues. He won’t miss his chance tonight.
It is no longer uncommon for St. Louis to produce players such as Connor Chatham, Ryan MacInnis and Blake Clarke, who have the skills to bypass the collegiate level and play in major junior hockey leagues.
