Patrick Maroon

Maroon was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the sixth round, 161st overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. He was assigned to the Flyers American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate team, the Adirondack Phantoms in 2007, but spent the season with the junior London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before joining the Phantoms.[2]

During the summer of 2010, Maroon led the United States men's national inline hockey team to a gold medal performance at the 2010 IIHF InLine Hockey World Championship.[2] He scored 7 goals and 14 points in 6 games at the in-line worlds including a goal and an assist in the gold medal game in Karlstad, Sweden, against the Czech Republic.[3]

After nine games of the 2010–11 season, Maroon led Adirondack in scoring with five goals. He was expected to make the jump to the NHL with the Flyers that year, but on October 30, 2010, he was suddenly dismissed from the Phantoms for an undisclosed incident.[4] Later articles indicated the team was unhappy with Maroon's lack of conditioning.[2]

Three weeks later, on November 21, 2010, Philadelphia traded Maroon and David Laliberté to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Rob Bordson and defenseman Danny Syvret.[5]

Shortly after the trade, Maroon was assigned to Anaheim's AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. He scored 11 minutes 10 seconds into his first game with the Crunch, with which he scored 21 goals and 48 points in 57 games.[3]

The 2013–14 season was Maroon's first full season in the NHL. He appeared in 62 games, scoring 11 goals to go with 18 assists and despite having a year to run on his contract was signed to a three-year contract extension on August 2, 2014.[6] He would appear in 71 games in his next season, scoring 9 goals with 25 assists. His offensive game came alive in the 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs, scoring 8 goals in 16 games while playing on the Ducks' top line.[2] Maroon's ability to create time and space for his linemates Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry by his hard work and fierce battles in the corners, led to his playoff production increasing as he found himself open in key moments of the series and he capitalized by lighting the lamp.

In the 2015–16 season, Maroon found himself playing with the fourth line for the Ducks at the beginning of the season. At times his play was exemplary and other times he often saw his ice time drop to below ten minutes a game. He was reunited with Corey Perry and found his scoring touch, picking up consecutive points in consecutive games, while scoring just 4 goals and 13 points in 56 games.

On February 29, 2016, Maroon was traded to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Martin Gernát and a fourth-round pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.[2] In his first four games as an Oiler, Maroon scored two goals and two assists.

In the first game of the 2016–17 season on October 12, Maroon scored the first goal in the Oilers' new arena, Rogers Place, in a 7–4 victory over the Calgary Flames.[7] On January 5, 2017, Maroon scored his first career NHL hat-trick in a 4–3 win over the Boston Bruins.[8]

On January 3, 2018, Maroon was suspended for two games for interfering against Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty.[9]

On February 25, 2018, Maroon was traded to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for J. D. Dudek and a third-round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.[10]

On July 10, 2018, Maroon signed a one-year, $1.75 million contract with his hometown St. Louis Blues.[11] In 74 regular season games, Maroon scored 10 goals to go with 18 assists for 28 points.

The Blues qualified for the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs as the third seed from the Central Division, capping a remarkable turnaround in a campaign that saw them in last place in the NHL as late as January 2019. They faced the Winnipeg Jets in the first round, and won the series in six games. In game 7 of the second round match-up against the Dallas Stars, he scored the game-winning goal in double overtime to give the Blues a 4–3 series win.[12] On June 12, Maroon and the Blues won the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history, defeating the Boston Bruins in seven games. He finished the playoffs with seven points.

On August 24, 2019, Maroon signed a one-year, $900,000 contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning.[13]