Longtime Detroit Pink Wings ahead Riley Sheahan has introduced his retirement from skilled hockey, per an article from Bill Potrecz of BP Sports Niagara. Sheahan was a 2010 first-round decide and went on to play in 637 NHL video games and 120 AHL video games throughout a 12-year profession, spanning six NHL franchises. Sheahan hasn’t performed because the 2022-23 season when he left a middling position with the Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Individuals for 12 video games with EHC Biel-Bienne of Switzerland’s prime league.
Sheahan’s was drafted after his freshman season on the College of Notre Dame and performed by his junior yr earlier than turning professional on the finish of the 2011-12 season. His 66 factors throughout 114 video games with the Preventing Irish shortly translated to the professional flight, with Sheahan scoring 38 factors throughout his first 79 video games within the AHL. He was as much as an NHL position by 2013-14, scoring 24 factors in 42 video games as a rookie — simply sufficient to solidify an on a regular basis spot on Detroit’s fourth line. The accountable and hard-nosed winger supported Detroit by the subsequent 4 seasons earlier than a 2017 commerce despatched him to Pittsburgh in a swap for Scott Wilson and draft picks. Sheahan’s position didn’t develop a lot in Pittsburgh and he was flipped roughly one season later in Pittsburgh’s acquisition of Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann from Florida. That second commerce kicked off Sheahan’s journeyman tenure — as he’d undergo strikes north to Edmonton, east to Buffalo and west to Seattle over the course of the subsequent three seasons. He served as a depth ahead all over the place he went, solely surpassing the 25-point mark 3 times in his profession — the 2014-15 (36), 2015-16 (25) and 2017-18 (32) seasons.
Sheahan struggled with accidents by his later profession, touchdown on IR in 2019, 2021 and 2022. The ultimate designation — a transfer to IR on Oct. 7, 2022 — was the results of an undisclosed harm and Sheahan would solely play in eight extra video games in North American execs earlier than his profession got here to a detailed. He’ll now dangle up his skates having scored 194 factors within the NHL and 61 within the AHL. Sheahan shared with Potrecz that he’s now supporting Sunday evening growth skates with the Niagara North Stars and stated he hasn’t closed off the thought of making an attempt to develop his teaching position in the future — although he emphasised that his spouse and two younger youngsters will come first.
