SAN JOSE — Joe Thornton took his normal spot among the forward lines on the first day of Sharks training camp Friday at the team’s practice facility — at center ice with Joe Pavelski on his right side and now Evander Kane on his left.
He said he feels back to normal, too, adding team doctors gave him a clean bill of health the day before, eight months after he had his second major reconstructive knee surgery in as many years.
“I feel good,” Thornton said. “Everything’s healthy, 100 percent, ready to go.”
Thornton, 39, is in a much better position health-wise than he was at the start of last season’s training camp, when he came back to practice only five months after having surgery to repair the anterior cruciate and the medial collateral ligaments in his left knee.