[LeBrun] Paul Stastny a décidé de prendre sa retraite après 17 saisons dans la LNH. Mais je soupçonne que ce n’est pas la dernière fois que nous le voyons au hockey.
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BCLetsRide69
@Avalanche du Colorado
[LeBrun] Paul Stastny a décidé de prendre sa retraite après 17 saisons dans la LNH. Mais je soupçonne que ce n’est pas la dernière fois que nous le voyons au hockey.
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BCLetsRide69
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Always found it strange that we booed Duchene for asking for a trade so that we could get something for him while Stastny wasn’t booed for telling Sakic he didn’t want to be traded at the deadline and would talk about re-signing in offseason and then bounced. I enjoyed his time here but glad he didn’t get a ring.
I loved Stastny when he was here. He was one of the new core players when I was finishing high school and getting really invested in hockey around the time Duchene was drafted so I have a soft spot for all those guys in the late 2000’s, regardless of what other peoples feelings towards them are.
[It was a simpler time back then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hdKRIJx_Tw&ab_channel=weasel1926)
Congrats to him on a long career. He was a bright spot during a rough time. I understood why the Avs didn’t trade him at the deadline. Was bummed when he went to St. Louis.
Landeskog has said in hindsight that he felt he was maybe named captain too early. I’ve always wondered if Stastny should have been the captain after Hejduk and how that maybe would have changed things at the end of his contract.
Always a favorite when I was a kid. So long Pauly Walnuts!
I missed some of the anti-Stastny narrative stuff that I heard about years later, but he was a player I appreciated a lot when he was here. Part of that was also that he played at DU and won a National Championship there (he scored two goals in the FF Championship game). At any rate feels like now that he’s retired it’s appropriate to take a moment and just appreciate that he was a very good hockey player and had a long, great career even if he never won a Cup. (for those who don’t like him, he had to watch three of his former teams win Cups without him).