Should Playoff Failure Hurt Olympic Hopes For Thornton and Marleau?

"When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets."

This seems to be the case for the San Jose Sharks' top two players, Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau—Even at the Olympic orientation camp for Team Canada.

Ever since Joe Thornton put on a Sharks sweater for the first time in the 2005-06 season after being traded from the Boston Bruins, San Jose has gone with the "Stanley Cup or bust" motto.

Four years later, it has been bust: and no one is forgetting.

Former Sharks' team captains Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton have not been able to escape the barrage of questions surrounding team team's early playoff exit and the news that Marleau and Thornton have been relieved of their leadership duties headin...

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