Two-time Stanley Cup champion forced to retire due to severe injuries

Two-time Stanley Cup champion winger Carl Hagelin announced his retirement on Wednesday on his Instagram account. The 35-year-old forward missed the 2022-23 season due to severe eye and hip injuries and has been forced to hang up the skates.

“It’s been an amazing ride, but it ends here,” Hagelin said. “Unfortunately, my eye injury is too severe to keep playing the game I love.”

He recently informed media this summer that he was hoping to return to action in 2023-24 after missing out on the entire previous campaign, but it unfortunately won’t be the case.

Hagelin was a free agent as his four-year, $11MM extension he’d signed with Washington in 2019 expired on July 1.

After being selected in the sixth round by the New York Rangers, Hagelin made his NHL debut in 2011 and played 854 regular-season and playoff games over 11 seasons with the Rangers, Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, Penguins and Capitals.

He retires having won the Stanley Cup twice with the Pittsburgh Penguins, back to back in 2016 and 2017.

Hockey Feed wishes Hagelin all the best in his future endeavours. 

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