500+ game NHL vet forced to retire due to major injury
Injuries are always a part of the game of a hockey. Usually those injuries can be overcome, but unfortunately sometimes those injuries become insurmountable and lead to the end of a player's career.
That's what has happened to former Montreal Canadiens, Paul Byron. Today Kent Hughes, Canadiens GM, announced that the team believes that Byron will officially file his NHL retirement papers before the season.
Montreal Canadiens GM Kent Hughes says Paul Byron is expected to retire prior to the upcoming season.
Byron's last game was April 19th, 2022. Byron missed all of last year due to his chronically injures hip. Byron has previously had surgery to repair a femoroacetabular impingement, without success. Byron described the injury as being simply from, "just years and years of a lot of wear and tear."
Byron career ends having played 521 games. In his career he scored 98 goals and added 110 assists.
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