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Longtime NHL forward Mike Comrie, better known these days as the husband of actress Hilary Duff, is calling it quits amid on-going hip troubles.
The 31-year-old Edmonton-born Comrie, who played for six teams over 10 seasons, announced his retirement on Monday, barely two weeks after undergoing his third hip surgery over the past five years.
Comrie’s last game was in April, 2011, when he scored his only goal of the season for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played just 21 games last season.
Comrie, who had 168 goals and 197 assists in 589 career games, said that he can no longer “manage the rigours of NHL play.
“My career has afforded me a series of phenomenal opportunities to play and become friends with some of the greatest people I have ever known and some of the greatest players who have ever played this game,” Comrie said in a statement released by his agent. “To have made the lasting friendships I enjoy today with so many of my former teammates is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Comrie scored 30 goals twice, including a career-high 33 with the Edmonton Oilers in 2001-02, the only season he managed to play all 82 games.
But things deteriorated for the hometown boy in Edmonton and he was traded to Philadelphia amid a contract dispute two seasons later. He was traded to Phoenix later that season and then dealt to Ottawa in 2007 and was part of a Senators team which lost in the Stanley Cup final to Anaheim.
Comrie signed with the Islanders the following season before Ottawa re-acquired him in a trade in 2009. He returned to Edmonton for the 2009-10 season before finishing his career with the Penguins.
Comrie won a gold medal for Canada at the 2002 world hockey championship.
Comrie, whose father and uncles founded The Brick furniture company, married Duff, an American actress and singer song-writer, in August, 2010. They are expecting their first child in March.
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