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Anaheim Geese ahead Jakob Silfverberg says he’ll retire on the finish of the common season.
ANAHEIM, Calif.: Anaheim Geese ahead Jakob Silfverberg says he’ll retire on the finish of the common season.
The 33-year-old Silfverberg introduced the choice on social media Thursday. After beginning his NHL profession in Ottawa, he has been with the Geese since 2013, serving as an alternate captain for the previous 5 years.
Silfverberg has 158 targets and 196 assists in his tenure with the Geese, scoring extra targets than anybody on the staff since his arrival 11 years in the past. He’s fifth in franchise historical past in targets, video games performed (769) and pictures, whereas rating third in short-handed targets.
“To spend 11 years in Orange County enjoying for the Geese is one thing I’ll cherish every single day,” Silfverberg stated in a press release.
Silfverberg was thought of one of many NHL’s high defensive forwards throughout his prime, and he was a key contributor to Anaheim groups that made the Western Convention finals in 2015 and 2017.
He was chosen to play within the 2020 NHL All-Star Sport, though he sat out to attend the start of his second baby. He additionally made a robust comeback in 2022 after lacking the ultimate 23 video games of the 2021-22 season due to a blood clot in his proper leg.
“He was the last word character participant for the Geese, Senators and his native Sweden, main by instance and at all times placing the staff first,” Geese normal supervisor Pat Verbeek stated. “His contributions on the ice and within the Orange County neighborhood could have a long-lasting influence.”
Silfverberg has seven targets and 12 assists in 78 video games this season for the Geese, who will miss the playoffs for the sixth straight season. Anaheim has three video games left, with its dwelling finale Friday towards Calgary.
Silfverberg was a second-round decide by Ottawa in 2009, however he spent three extra seasons with Brynäs IF in his native Sweden’s high league earlier than making his NHL debut in the course of the Senators’ playoff run in 2012.
Ottawa traded Silfverberg to Anaheim in July 2013 as a part of a bundle for Bobby Ryan.
Silfverberg additionally received an Olympic silver medal for Sweden on the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
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