Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports
Anaheim Ducks star center Ryan Getzlaf announced Tuesday that, after 17 NHL seasons, he would be retiring.
The time was coming for it sooner or later, and at age 38, there was nothing left for him to prove. Getzlaf doesn’t have a flashy legacy, but he is the best Ducks player in franchise history, and he does have a legacy as a winner on most teams he played for.
Getzlaf has incredible longevity – his rookie season of 2005-06 was the final season the Ducks were known as the Mighty Ducks– and he’s Anaheim’s all-time leader in games played (1,150) as well as assists (731). More importantly, he won a Stanley Cup in his second season in the league, leading the way for the Ducks with 10 assists and 17 points in 21 games. He won two gold medals for Canada at the Olympics. He won another gold medal for his homeland at the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 2003 World Junior Championship. And he was on the winning team at the 2016 World Cup of…
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