Eleven-year NHL veteran Jesper Fast announced his retirement from professional hockey earlier today.

Fast, 33, played his final four seasons in Carolina and was a playoff hero for the Hurricanes in the spring of 2023. He sustained a neck injury in the final regular season game of the 2023-24 season vs. the Columbus Blue Jackets and did not compete in Carolina’s recently-concluded campaign.

Fast was one of several prominent veteran players who did not dress for any games during the season due to injury. Torey Krug (St. Louis), T.J. Oshie (Washington) and Tucker Poolman (Colorado) were also on long-term injured reserve in 2024-25.

Fast spent his first seven seasons in the NHL with the New York Rangers and earned their alternate captain sweater from 2017-20.

“I never took for granted the

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