It's the end of another era in the NHL, as Saku Koivu announced on Wednesday that he was retiring after 18 NHL seasons. Koivu spent his entire career between Montreal and Anaheim, where he played in over 1,100 games and amassed a shade over 830 points in his career, not to mention his triumphant return from a battle with cancer, which lifted his status beyond compare to a lot of NHL players.
In hockey pool terms, Koivu was never an upper-echelon kind of player, never really considered to be a top end pick, his peak position in pool scoring came in the 2003 season, where he finished 42nd overall, thanks to a 71-point campaign in 82 games with the Canadiens.He spent most of his time hovering in the top 200 in pool scoring and then in the 2014 season, he finished with only 11 goals and 29 points in 65 games for the Ducks, dropping him to 290th overall and that would then be his last season in the NHL.
Koivu was a big contributor to his teams and teammates, both on and off the ice, according to many reports, which led him to the captaincy in Montreal, which is a storied position to hold in North American pro sports.
Strike him from your list, he won't do you much good in the 2015 season.
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