Longtime Chicago Blackhawks defenseman, a two-time Norris Trophy winner, announced his retirement Tuesday.
He also won the NHL championship with the Blackhawks in 2010 and ’13. He played last season with Edmonton. A second-round pick in the 2002 NHL draft, Keith played the first 16 years of his NHL career with Chicago before asking to be traded closer to home in Western Canada in 2021.
Two-time Norris Trophy winner Duncan Keith, who skated 16 seasons with the Blackhawks before one final season with the Oilers, has retired from the NHL.
Keith was entering the final season of a 13-year, $72 million contract he signed with the Blackhawks in December 2009, which carried an annual cap hit of $5,538,462. He played his 1,200th NHL game on Nov. 1, 2021, versus the Seattle Kraken and later became just the second player in NHL history with 2,000 blocked shots. Keith, 38, played 64 games with the Oilers in his only season in Edmonton, tallying 21 points.
The Edmonton Oilers have announced the official retirement of Duncan Keith at the same moment as news broke that his possible replacement on the Oil's ...
I see him as a useful 4/5 d-man on an NHL team, the kind of player Kris Russell was for the Oilers for many seasons. Darnell Nurse is coming back from major injury and behind him the Oil have a number of rookies, Philip Broberg, Markus Niemelainen and Dmitri Samorukov. He earned his keep as a useful puck-moving second-pairing defenceman and flourished for a time in a partnership with young Evan Bouchard. Edmonton has some decisions to make on the backend.” Article content Article content
Veteran defenceman Duncan Keith officially announced his retirement on Tuesday after 17 NHL seasons. Keith spent this past season with the Edmonton Oilers ...
Veteran defenceman Duncan Keith officially announced his retirement on Tuesday after 17 NHL seasons. He was acquired by the Oilers last summer from the Chicago Blackhawks for a draft pick and defenceman Caleb Jones. the Oilers wrote on Twitter.
Family brought Duncan Keith to Edmonton after a stellar run as the backbone of the Chicago Blackhawks' defence. And following one solid season with the ...
A 39-year-old man is facing several drug trafficking charges. 5 hr ago 5 hr ago Four people were in the boat when it capsized. 5 hr ago With fewer recruits entering training and more members leaving, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police needs to fill more boots. "It's incredibly special playing playoff hockey in Edmonton," Keith said. "I know we came up short last year," he said. He was dealt to Edmonton along with Tim Soderlund in that off-season in exchange for Caleb Jones and a conditional third-round pick in 2022. "I'm so thankful to have a guy like that to play alongside for 15 years. "In two years I never saw him miss one pass. "I still love the game, always will," Keith said with Colton by his side.
I don't know if it was Duncan Keith getting choked up when he spoke about his years with the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he won three Stanley Cups and the ...
“I think Bob (Nicholson) has had a lot to do with creating that culture here because I know it was like that in Hockey Canada as well. I think the organization, when I think about the Oilers, it’s an incredible organization, a family atmosphere. Keith’s contributions on and off the ice as a player and a teammate helped make the Oilers a better team. It was a nice moment – with nobody pointing out Holland could have and probably should have had Chicago retain some salary to make this day possible in the first place. Today was no different and it was a wonderful way to end the chapter on Keith’s time here. Today, it was gold sticks presented to Keith and his son by GM Ken Holland, an unexpected touch of class.
After 17 seasons in the NHL, Edmonton Oilers defenceman Duncan Keith announces he's retiring from the game of hockey.
On Nov. 1, 2021 he reached a new achievement with the Oilers, notching his 1,200th game against the Seattle Kraken. “It’s incredibly special playing playoff hockey in Edmonton,” Keith said. “Being around them, just to see how good they really are on a day-to-day basis, it was amazing.
Oilers defenseman Duncan Keith announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday. This is big NHL news as Keith has been in the league for a long time.
Now he gets to relax and enjoy retirement before getting his number retired by the Chicago Blackhawks and go down in history as the best defenseman ever to wear the Hawks uniform. Duncan Keith was the top defenseman for the Chicago Blackhawks for a long time. Keith’s retirement clears up some much-needed cap space for the Edmonton Oilers, and it hits Chicago with a cap penalty because Keith retired before his contract was up.