Patrick Sharp is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who currently works as a studio analyst for NBC Sports Chicago. During his 15 years long playing career in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars.
The thirty-seven years old reportedly earns $115,000 per annum from his reporting career and has an estimated net worth of $10 million in 2019. Regarding his love life, Sharp is married and has two children with his wife.
As of 2019, Partick Sharp has an estimated net worth of $10 million, mostly earned through his NHL career. Throughout his 13 seasons in NHL, he summoned $47,900,000. His most recent contract provided him $800,000 of base salary with $200,000 incentives from Chicago Blackhawks in 2017-18.
Currently working as a studio analyst at NBC Sports Chicago. According to the source, the sports analyst makes $115,000 per annum.
In 2015, Sharp rented his Lakeview home for $10.5K per month. He bought the 7,300 s.f. Brick and limestone Lakeview mansion in 2012 for $3 million. The house has six bedrooms.
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Patrick Sharp, 37, is a married man. He tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Abby, in July 2010. Their wedding ceremony was held in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, which was attended by their family, friends, and Sharp's Blackhawks teammate including Patrick Kane.
The couple met while attending college in Vermont and started dating since. Besides, there are no records of his past affairs or girlfriend.
In December 2011, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter. Further, their second daughter was born in October 2013.
Sharp was featured on the cover of Chicago magazine in its "50 Most Beautiful Chicagoans" story, in early 2011.
In December 2009, Patrick was inaccurately named "Chicago's Sexiest Athlete" by Victoria's Secret, which then named Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls the winner, mentioning an "internal error."
He was rumored to have sex with Patrick Kane’s girlfriend, Duncan Keith’s wife, and Cheryl Scott from ABC7. But the rumors appear to be mostly untrue.
A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Patrick Sharp was born on December 27, 1981. His star sign is. As per nationality, he is an American and belongs to the white ethnic background.
He is the youngest child born to Ian and Ruth Ann Sharp. Further, he has an elder brother, Chris, who currently lives in Calgary, Alberta. Moving several times in his life, Patrick left his native Manitoba and moved to Calgary as a child and then relocated to Thunder Bay in 1990 at age nine. Patrick spent the rest of his childhood in Thunder Bay.
He attended local public schools in Calgary and Thunder Bay prior to settling in Burlington, Vermont, in the United States, to enroll the University of Vermont.
Sharp began his hockey career in Thunder Bay, Ontario, playing first for the Thunder Bay Kings program then for the former Thunder Bay Flyers of the United States Hockey League (USHL). From there, he continued his hockey career in the college ranks with the University of Vermont, before the Philadelphia Flyers selected him in the third round, 95th overall, of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
In 2003–04, Sharp made his NHL debut. On December 5, 2005, Sharp was traded by the Flyers to the Chicago Blackhawks in midway through the 2005–06 season in exchange for Matt Ellison and a third-round pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. on January 17, 2008, Sharp signed a new, four-year contract with the Blackhawks lasting through to the end of the 2011–12 season.
On August 3, 2011, he signed a new five-year contract with Chicago worth $29.5 million. What's more, he won three Stanley Cup Champion (2010, 2013, 2015) alongside teammates Jonathan Toews, Niklas Hjalmarsson, and Brent Seabrook.
On July 10, 2015, Sharp and Blackhawks defenceman Stephen Johns were traded to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Trevor Daley and Ryan Garbutt, due to salary cap issues. On July 1, 2017, Sharp agreed on a one-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks for the 2017–18 season.
In 2017, he announced his retirement, commenting, "I think I've known what I wanted to do for a long period of time here, and it's never easy... But I think I'm just ready to take that next step in my life — and looking forward to it."
In October 2018, Sharp joined NBC Sports Chicago as a studio analyst.