REPORT: RED WINGS' HOLMSTROM EXPECTED TO RETIRE BEFORE SEASON

[mattola]

Report: Red Wings' Holmstrom expected to retire before season

 

[mattola]

is this out of left field?

 

[sherbert1421]

is this out of left field?

no

everyone in detroit figured he was going to retire

 

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So long, you smelly Swede

- Miikka Kiprusoff

 

[higgyfan4]

He wanted to wait awhile to let the sting of Nick retiring ease a little bit.

Bye Homer, you will be missed, especially during 24/7 next season. He's a riot. :sad:

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Will they retire his ass?

Goaltenders will get this joke.

Thanks, Homer. Now no one remains of the '97 team, the one I grew up watching and the one I fell in love with.

 

[Slimpikins]

I'm glad to see him gone. He was such a pain in the ass in front of the crease.

I will give him his due though, the man took a lot of abuse in the dirty areas and got more than his fair share of b.s. interference penalties. He was a heck of a hockey player.

I was surprised he made it in the new NHL so long, he was almost as slow as Douglas Murray.

 

[DChero]

There's nothing more uncomfortable than Homer in your crease. Great career!

 

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Former Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman once asked Tomas Holmstrom why he chose to wear No. 96.

“That's the year I came here from Sweden,'' Holmstrom said.

“Well, you should have picked 98,'' Bowman told him, “because that's the year you're going back.''

 

[Wingingit]

Nobody did it better,

It's been all over the news here, I will miss listening to his interviews he has his own Swednglish language, last of the back to back team players.

[sigh] How time flies.