OT: Red Wings' Osgood retires from the NHL

[icehogfan08]

Chris Osgood's long and winding road in the NHL has finally come to an end.

The 38-year-old keeper announced his retirement from hockey in Detroit Tuesday morning, bringing an end to his 17-year playing career. He moves on to a new job within the Red Wings organization.

The Peace River, Alberta-native won three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings, who originally drafted Osgood in the third round, 54th overall, in 1991. He suited up for 744 NHL games in his career, spending two stints with the Wings, as well as playing for the Blues and Islanders.

He would serve as the starter for two of his three Cup wins, in 1998 and 2008 and served as Mike Vernon's back-up on Detroit's 1997 Cup-winning team. He also took the Wings to Game Seven of the 2008 Cup finals, where they would lose to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

A two-time Jennings Trophy winner, Osgood would share the award with Mike Vernon in 1996 and Dominik Hasek in 2008.

Osgood's numbers rank amongst the all-time leaders amongst NHL goalies, despite fighting for a starting job for portions of his career.

Still, the numbers piled up. He ranks amongst the all-time leaders in regular-season wins (401, 10th all-time), shutouts (50, tied for 24th), goals-against average (2.49, 24th).

In the playoffs, his numbers were even better, his 74 playoff wins are good for eighth all-time and his 16 playoff shutouts trail only Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy and Curtis Joseph.

Osgood is also one of only five goalies to have scored a goal in an NHL game by actually firing the puck into the opponent's net, doing so against Hartford on March 6, 1996.

RED WINGS' OSGOOD RETIRES FROM THE NHL AFTER 17 SEASONS

 

[DMelt36]

If he wasn't a Red Wing, Osgood would've been one of my favorite NHL players. They had him mic'd up during All-Star weekend a few years ago and he was hysterical the whole time.

Had a great career, glad to see he won't be in the net for Detroit anymore, particularly in the playoffs.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

Congrats on a nice career..

but..


:gtfo:

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

Who's gonna be their goalie?

 

[icehogfan08]

Who's gonna be their goalie?

They have Howard, just no back-up right now

 

[LonghornBob]

I respected but hated him. Same as all the Red Wings.

You can hate a team and still respect them. On the opposite end of things, I hate the Cannucks and have NO respect for them. There's a huge difference. Red Wings are at least hockey players and real men and as much as I'd love to take them out in the playoffs, I can at least look at them and think "okay, well at least we lost to a hockey team."

When we lose to Vancouver I just piss blood.

 

[Captain Iago]

I respected but hated him. Same as all the Red Wings.

You can hate a team and still respect them. On the opposite end of things, I hate the Cannucks and have NO respect for them. There's a huge difference. Red Wings are at least hockey players and real men and as much as I'd love to take them out in the playoffs, I can at least look at them and think "okay, well at least we lost to a hockey team."

When we lose to Vancouver I just piss blood.

Not all of those Red Wings, but yeah, I agree with mostly what you have stated.