Almost three years after he last played an NHL game, goalie Jaroslav Halak is calling it a career. Halak, 40, is retiring from hockey with immediate effect, he told Tomas Prokop of Dennik Sport in his home country of Slovakia per a Friday morning social media post. The goalie spent 17 seasons in the NHL split between seven teams.

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