Just hours after another Los Angeles sporting legend, Clayton Kershaw, announced that 2025 will be his final season , another one of the longest-tenured athletes in Hollywood announced his plans to hang it up. Anze Kopitar, a hockey superstar for the Los Angeles Kings for nearly two decades, announced that 2025-26 will be his final season in the NHL, according to Kings reporter Zach Dooley.

Kopitar has spent his entire 19-year career with the Kings and will play out year 20 this winter into the spring as he rides off into the sunset with the same team that drafted him. The Los Angeles captain has won two Stanley Cups with the franchise and has become synonymous with Kings hockey over the course of the 21st century.

In addition to those two championships, Kopitar has won the Selke T

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