In his eighteenth seasons since putting on NHL jersey in 1990 as a first-round pick drafted by the Winnipeg Jets, the St. Louis Blues left wing Keith Tkachuk is likely to announce his retirement one this season ends.
At age 38, Tkachuk has had a few nasty injuries this year: Early in January he lost a few teeth when the puck hit him in the mouth and displaced a finger on his left hand recently. He has said that a decision on retirement will be made "fairly quickly" after the season ends.
"I've got some thoughts running through my mind," Tkachuk told the paper. "You get older and you're just not the same way you used to be. It gets a lot harder ... guys are bigger, faster, stronger."
Tkachuk spent his first five seasons with the Jets before the team moved to Phoenix to become the Coyotes and he stayed there from 1996 to 2000. He did not finish the 2000 season with the Coyotes but left for the Blues. Then he spent most of the remaining nine seasons with the Blues except for a short-term departure in 2006 when he spent the second half of the season with the Atlantic Thrashers before re-joining the Blues for the 2007 season.
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