Future Hall Of Famer Nicklas Lidstrom Retires

I like to post a career retrospective whenever a player that I think belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame retires.  Today Nicklas Lidstrom is retiring.  He has had a great career proving himself to be one of the best defencemen in hockey history.  It is a shame that he is retiring now because even at age 42, he is still capable of All Star level play.

Lidstrom was born on April 28, 1970 in Vasteras, Sweden.  His first potential notice from hockey scouts came in the 1987/88 season when at age 17 (soon to be 18) he played three regular season games and five more in the playoffs with Vasteras IK’s team in Sweden’s division two league (this is not the elite Vasteras team).  This was the first year that Lidstrom was draft eligible and nobody selected him.  He was largely an unknown player.

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