Red Wings’ Daniel Alfredsson To Announce Retirement

By Catherine Silverman | Nov 25, 2014

Apr 9, 2014; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (29) makes an acrobatic save against Detroit Red Wings right wing Daniel Alfredsson (11) during the shootout at the CONSOL Energy Center. The Penguins won 4-3 in a shootout. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports /

Detroit Red Wings winger Daniel Alfredsson to announce retirement December 4th

Those who have been around the league a while know Daniel Alfredsson all too well.

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The 41-year-old Swedish winger has played in 1,246 NHL games since being drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the sixth round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He’s scored 444 goals and pitched in with 713 assists, making 124 playoff appearances — including the twenty that led the Senators to the Stanley Cup Final in 2007.

He hoped to spend one more year in the NHL before retiring, but a back problem has kept him from playing at all this season; so, it has been announced that he’ll officially announce his retirement on December 4th.

Can confirm @DarrenDreger report that Daniel Alfredsson retirement is expected to be announced Dec. 4 in Ottawa. #Sens
— Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) November 26, 2014

Although he is signed for the season with the Red Wings, it comes as no surprise that Alfredsson will make the official announcement in Ottawa. After being drafted by the Senators, he played for the team for seventeen years, only leaving for the 2013-2014 season to play in the newly realigned Eastern Conference Detroit team.

In addition to his illustrious NHL career, Alfredsson has made quite a name for himself back home — over his eighteen-year professional hockey career, Daniel Alfredsson has won both the gold and silver medals with Team Sweden. The silver came just last year, when Sweden almost took the games in Sochi.

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