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Hanging up the skates Coffey to announce retirement after 21 NHL seasons
Updated: Wednesday October 03, 2001 8:26 AM
TORONTO (AP) -- Paul Coffey, a star defenseman for 21 NHL seasons and four Stanley Cup teams, plans to retire from the NHL on Wednesday, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported. "I'm at peace with myself," Coffey told the newspaper on Tuesday. "I did what I wanted to do -- play in the NHL for 21 seasons. "Priorities change. As a professional athlete, your life has to be dominated by hockey, giving an effort north of 100 percent. My family is where my life is at right now." The 40-year-old Coffey leaves the NHL as one of its most decorated defensemen. Besides the four Stanley Cup teams, Coffey played on three Canada Cup winners and won three Norris trophies as the NHL's best defenseman. With 1,531 points, he is second only to Ray Bourque in career scoring by a defenseman and is the leading career playoff scorer among blue-liners with 196 points in 194 games. "The things I'm most proud of are the championships," he said. He won Stanley Cups at Edmonton in 1984, 1985 and 1987 and then in 1991 with Pittsburgh.
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