NEW YORK (AP) - Mark Messier retired Monday, bringing the curtain down on a 25-year NHL career. He won six Stanley Cup championships along the way and ranks second only to Wayne Gretzky on the NHL's all-time scoring list.
Messier became a star in Edmonton in the 1980s and a headliner on Broadway in the '90s, captaining the New York Rangers to the '94 championship that ended the team's 54-year title drought. And he teamed with Gretzky to win four championships in Edmonton during the 1980s and then won another in 1990 after Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles.
It became official Monday, but the 44-year-old Messier all but said goodbye on March 31st of 2004, following the Rangers' final home game before the lockout that wiped out all of last season.
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Messier has had enough
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