Patrice Bergeron retires

[kovalchuk17]

Great career, first ballot hall of famer. Really wish he didnt get his cup vs my Canucks but alas here we are.

Us fantasy managers will have to find a way to replace one of the few players in the league that could win 1000 FWS while maintaining 3+ SOGs per game

[rtstr]

Zacha or Coyle is now the C1 of Boston.

the ship hasn't completely sailed on Krejci yet! But, it looks like it's heading out of the port soon.

[lucafen4]

The only Bruin I like.

Fun fact from Gord Miller - Until 2005, teams received a compensatory draft pick if one of their players left as a free agent. In 2002, Boston’s Bill Guerin signed with Dallas, Boston was awarded a compensatory 2003 second round pick, 45th overall. The Bruins used it to select Patrice Bergeron.

[LawMan]

One of the good ones. What a career!

[2014olympicgold]

the ship hasn't completely sailed on Krejci yet! But, it looks like it's heading out of the port soon.

5yrs ago would we ever have guessed Lucic would be playing for the Bruins and Bergeron and Krecji wouldn't be?

[pmorrow]

I wonder if they take a run at some of the centers on the trade market, or at least believed to be. Scheifele, Kuznetsov, maybe Lindholm or Backlund if things don't go well in negotiations.

[Godin]

Great player. Great career. Could always be counted on. Never missed a shift.
Fun fact, in his rookie year, I made a trade with one of the leaders and he threw in Bergeron as a filler. Sometimes you get lucky.

[ross10019]

Possibly my favorite player of all time, and that’s from a diehard Habs fan! What a player.

[ross10019]

Check out this excerpt from an excellent piece in the Athletic today:

“By the end of the conclusive Game 6 of the Blackhawks’ 4-2 series win over Bergeron’s Bruins, Bergeron was having trouble breathing. He needed professional care, fast.

In the days that followed, McQuaid and several teammates went to check on Bergeron in the hospital. It was there that it hit McQuaid just what playing through a punctured lung, broken ribs, torn rib cartilage and a separated shoulder had done to his friend: Bergeron had endured trauma usually suffered in car crashes.

“We knew he was banged up,” recalls McQuaid, now the Bruins’ player development coordinator. “But not to that extent. He wasn’t making a big scene about it. Just kind of quietly trying to battle through. I think that sums up him in a lot of ways.”

It was a theme Bergeron visited multiple times throughout his 1,294-game NHL career, which came to a conclusion Tuesday as Bergeron announced his retirement.

The cycle remained the same: fall, rise, thrive.

He succeeded because each time, Bergeron was playing for something bigger than himself.”

[Grapes]

A class act. First ballot Hall of Fame. One of my all-time favourites.

[kovalchuk17]

Check out this excerpt from an excellent piece in the Athletic today:

“By the end of the conclusive Game 6 of the Blackhawks’ 4-2 series win over Bergeron’s Bruins, Bergeron was having trouble breathing. He needed professional care, fast.

In the days that followed, McQuaid and several teammates went to check on Bergeron in the hospital. It was there that it hit McQuaid just what playing through a punctured lung, broken ribs, torn rib cartilage and a separated shoulder had done to his friend: Bergeron had endured trauma usually suffered in car crashes.

“We knew he was banged up,” recalls McQuaid, now the Bruins’ player development coordinator. “But not to that extent. He wasn’t making a big scene about it. Just kind of quietly trying to battle through. I think that sums up him in a lot of ways.”

It was a theme Bergeron visited multiple times throughout his 1,294-game NHL career, which came to a conclusion Tuesday as Bergeron announced his retirement.

The cycle remained the same: fall, rise, thrive.

He succeeded because each time, Bergeron was playing for something bigger than himself.”

This dude was medically cleared to play? WTF. There's a fine line between warrior and crazy, this is crazy

[berni67]

45th overall pick in 2003. Drafting a superstar player is not an exact science!!!

[lucafen4]

45th overall pick in 2003. Drafting a superstar player is not an exact science!!!

Datsyuk agrees

[tweetdrivr]

As does Pavel Bure.

[Invictus]

Datsyuk agrees

Sad day when this career came to an end too