Chelios Retires After 26 NHL Seasons at BetLM

Chelios Retires After 26 NHL Seasons

Chris Che­lios offi­cially announced his retire­ment Tues­day after 26 NHL sea­sons and three Stan­ley Cups. NHL bet­ting fans are excited to hear that Che­lios will men­tor the Red Wings prospects. This is def­i­nitely going to improve Detroit’s odds to come out ahead. The Detroit Red Wings are cur­rently listed at +800 to win the 2010-11 Stan­ley Cup.

The 48-year-old Che­lios is the longest tenured and arguably one of the best defense­man in the NHL. He has played in 1,651 NHL games to date, and he is going to occupy a front office posi­tion with the Detroit Red Wings, his for­mer team. The 11-time NHL All-Star and five-time First Team All-Star played from 1999–2009 with the Wings and will move into the role of advi­sor of hockey oper­a­tions with them now.

Che­lios has played for three Stan­ley Cup win­ning clubs, the 1986 Cana­di­ens and the Red Wings in ’02 and ’08. He was hon­ored three times with the Nor­ris Tro­phy as the league’s best blueliner.

At 46, Che­lios played for the organization’s AHL farm club, the Grand Rapids Griffins, after join­ing the Wings again for the 2007-08 cam­paign and became the old­est player in the 73-year his­tory of the AHL to do so.

Che­lios also played for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves before join­ing the Thrash­ers for the 2009-10 NHL Sea­son. How­ever, he failed to reg­is­ter a point in a suc­cinct seven game stint with Atlanta.

Che­lios entered the league with Mon­treal after the 1984 Win­ter Olympics. He rep­re­sented the United States in the Olympics four times, and also played for the U.S in three Canada Cups (‘84,’87,’91) and two World Cup of Hockey events.

Play­ing over 1,600 career regular-season games for the Cana­di­ens, Black­hawks, Red Wings and Thrash­ers, Che­lios col­lected 185 goals and 948 points.

Che­lios becomes the old­est U.S. — born hockey player of all-time as he hangs his skates at 48. He is also one of the old­est hockey play­ers in tWings his­tory, sec­ond only to for­mer Wings great Gordie Howe, who retired at 52.

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