Ducks lose out on Patrick Marleau, who leaves Sharks for Maple Leafs

Brief as it may have been, the Patrick Marleau sweepstakes is over and it was Toronto and not the Ducks that had the winning numbers for that lottery.
Marleau made his decision Sunday and the 500-goal scorer chose the Maple Leafs’ three-year bid worth $18.75 million over offers made by the Ducks and San Jose, the team he’s spent 19 years starring for after the Sharks took him with the No. 2 pick in the 1997 draft.
The Ducks went hard after the venerable Sharks winger but they, along