ormer Boston Bruins forward Riley Nash announced his retirement from the NHL on Wednesday.
Nash played two seasons with the Bruins during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. The 36-year-old center skated in 157 games in Boston, totaling 22 goals and 36 assists.
To end his career, Nash played one game with the New York Rangers during the 2023-24 season. He also played 41 games for the Rangers’ AHL team that season, finishing with 11 goals and 27 points.
The next season, he sat out due to recovering from multiple knee injuries from the previous season with the Hartford Wolfpack.
“It is definitely something weird to say, and it hasn’t really sunk in yet, even though I basically had all of last year away from the rink, but this year will still be weird,” Nash said of retirement, according to Castanet’s Tyler Lowey. “This is all I’ve done and focused on for the past 30 years, but now is the time to end this chapter or book and look at what’s next.”
He played 940 regular-season games in professional hockey, tallying 143 goals and 226 assists for 369 points.
His first Stanley Cup run was with the Bruins in 2017 when the team fell to the Ottawa Senators in the first round. Nash went back to the playoffs with Boston in 2018 but lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second round.
“With three wonderful young kids and the way my body has behaved over the past few years, it was time to take a step back as an older guy and let others chase their dream the same way I did,” Nash said.