One-time Red Wing, Grand Rapids Griffin, and 2024 training camp/exhibition season try-out Alex Chiasson has retired…
A #StanleyCup Champion with 651 NHL games played for 7 different NHL teams, congratulations to Alex Chiasson, who recently announced his retirement from the NHL 👏
— NHLPA (@NHLPA) January 6, 2025
Good luck to Alex on his next adventure! pic.twitter.com/co5eHD8hx2
And the Hockey News’s Sam Stockton took note of Chiasson’s time in Detroit:
Chiasson’s time in Detroit wasn’t long, playing just his last 20 games with the Red Wings in the 2022-23 season. He attempted a comeback on a PTO with Detroit during training camp, but it didn’t result in a contract. Now, unsigned midway through the season, Chiasson has accepted that his NHL career has run its course.
Even back in training camp, Chiasson recognized that his time in the NHL was coming to an end. “If we go back maybe a year from today, I wasn’t sure where my career was at,” he said in October. “Thought maybe that was it for me. Hockey was hard physically, but just life in general wasn’t much fun. So went through the process and ended up getting surgery in January, and here we are today. [I’m] grateful for the opportunity to be here, obviously worked really hard to come back. It’s not easy at 33 to put in the work and all that, but you can only do this for so long, and hopefully I can show what I can do.”
