Another winning three Stanley Cups and piling together more than 400 wins, Red Wing veteran Chris Osgood has retired, offically ending the veterans' tenure with the Red Wings as a player. He will continue with the team as a goaltender consultant, but his accomplishments are just that important to a career that has gone back-and-forth from time to time.
This is just the Red Wings' second retirement in as many weeks. As you may have remembered, defenseman Brian Rafalski retired and now comes along Chris Osgood, but Osgood has left a much bigger impact on the team than Rafalski did. He earned most of the attention along with returnee Nick Lidstrom and supreme player Stevie Yzerman. He's 10th on the NHL list in goals with 401 and went 71-49 in the playoffs, one of the best winning percentages ever in the playoffs.
Chris Osgood will be remembered by what he brought to the Red Wings. Not only his courage and his leadership but also his gifted abilities in goal and his fate towards the city of hockey. I think Osgood's retirement says it all. This guy did what he could and he decided to hang it up after a great career with the Red Wings, Islanders, and Blues. But his other teams are not as important as that of the Red Wings.
With the great veteran Chris Osgood gone, the Wings have now brought back Ty Conklin, who is expected to fill that backup role to Jimmy Howard. Osgood will be great at his goaltending consultant position, but fans will remember him as one of the many players that lead the Red Wings to history.
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