Lucic Calls It a Career After Rugged NHL Run

Milan Lucic is hanging up the skates after a long, bruising NHL ride that made him one of the league’s most recognizable power forwards. The former Flames winger built a reputation the old-fashioned way - by leaning on defenders, creating room, and never backing away from the heavy stuff. Retirement was always going to look different for a player like this, because his career was defined less by finesse and more by the kind of edge coaches love and opponents remember.