{"id":2782,"date":"2026-06-15T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:04:00","slug":"ex-bruin-milan-lucic-officially-calls-it-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bruin Milan Lucic officially calls it a career"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This story originally appeared in the Globe\u2019s Sunday Hockey Notes. <\/i>Read the rest here.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Bruins power forward Milan Lucic, who spent the past season playing in Scotland for the Fife Flyers in an attempt to find a route back to an NHL roster, announced via social media last Sunday that he has put away the skates for good. In a text exchange with a Globe reporter, he said he will return to North America this week to begin life after his playing days.<\/span><\/p>\n

The big man left a mark: 233 goals and 353 assists and a Cup with the Bruins in 2011 in his 1,177 regular-season games. He put up a career-high 62 points in that 2010-11 season and contributed 5-7\u201312 to the championship run.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Upon taking the general manager\u2019s chair in May 2015, one of Don Sweeney\u2019s first moves was to send a 27-year-old Lucic to the Kings, setting up the hulking winger for a humongous payday (seven years\/$42 million) a year later in Edmonton when ex-Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli was running the Oilers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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