This November, Teemu Selanne will become the fifth former San Jose Shark to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He’ll join Igor Larionov, Ed Belfour, Rob Blake, and Sergei Makarov.
None of the five ex-Sharks in the Hall of Fame played more than 200 games with San Jose. Since Sharks fans can’t truly consider any of the players “one of their own,” it’s a group that doesn’t feel quite right, and probably won’t until Joe Thornton (and, hopefully, Patrick Marleau) join them in hockey immortality.
Though their times in San Jose were limited, the group was largely successful in their short time with the Sharks.