Stanley Cup champion Milan Lucic announces retirement

Stanley Cup champion Milan Lucic announced his retirement from hockey on Sunday.

Lucic hasn’t played in the NHL since the beginning of the 2023-24 season, and in fact missed most of that and the 2024-25 season, but did make a brief return to hockey in 2025-26. He had attempted to come back to North American pro hockey with the St. Louis Blues, but after getting injured while on a PTO, he briefly played for their AHL team, the Springfield Thunderbirds on an AHL PTO before it was terminated. He finished out his season in the EIHL in Scotland, playing for the Fife Flyers.

Lucic had one assists in five games in the AHL with the Thunderbirds, and five goals and seven assists for 12 points in 26 games in the EIHL with the Flyers.

Lucic retires after 17 seasons in the NHL with the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. A second-round pick of the Bruins in the 2006 NHL Draft, he finishes his career with 233 goals and 353 assists for 586 points in 1,177 regular season games, along with 29 goals and 48 assists for 77 points in 136 games.

While Lucic did not win any individual awards during his NHL career, he retires having won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011. He did receive votes for the Calder Trophy, the Selke Trophy and the year-end All-Star Team.

However, Lucic had his NHL career end three years ago when he was arrested for a domestic incident involving his wife. He pled not guilty to assault and battery, and the charges were eventually dropped after his wife refused to testify.