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Former NHL forward Milan Lucic has signed with the Fife Flyers of Britain’s Elite Ice Hockey League, the club announced Thursday. <\/p>\n

The 37-year-old Vancouver native played 1,177 regular-season games in the NHL and won a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011. Lucic also played for the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames. <\/p>\n

He had recently been<\/a> with the St. Louis Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate in Springfield on a professional tryout. He recorded one assist in five games with the Springfield Thunderbirds. <\/p>\n

Lucic was charged in 2023 in connection with an alleged domestic incident involving his wife, Brittany Carnegie, but prosecutors later dropped the case <\/a>after she declined to testify, making it impossible to proceed.<\/p>\n

Scottish media reported Thursday the signing has drawn criticism from domestic abuse advocates and coincided with the resignations of two Fife Flyers officials.<\/p>\n

Scottish Women’s Aid said the club was sending the wrong message by signing Lucic. A spokesperson told STV News “clubs employing players who have been accused of violence against women send out the wrong message,” adding that sport has a significant influence on people’s lives.<\/p>\n

Fife Flyers chief operating officer Gareth Chalmers announced his resignation last week, citing disagreement with the club’s direction following recent developments involving the team.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media, Chalmers said he could not “sacrifice personal and professional integrity for decisions I am opposed to,” but did not refer to the Lucic signing directly.<\/p>\n

Reinstated earlier this year<\/p>\n

Media consultant Craig Anderson also stepped away from the club after less than three months in the role. In a post on X, Anderson said he could no longer support the direction the club was headed, though he did not mention Lucic by name. <\/p>\n

Lucic last played in the NHL in 2023 and was reinstated earlier this year after completing the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program. <\/p>\n

Lucic will wear No. 8 with the Flyers, pending completion of paperwork, the team said. <\/p>\n

The Flyers, founded in 1938 and the oldest operational ice hockey team in the United Kingdom, were last in the 10-team British Elite League heading into Thursday’s games.<\/p>\n

The Lucic signing comes amid heightened scrutiny of off-ice conduct in British ice hockey.<\/p>\n

The BBC reported this week Sheffield Steelers forward Cliff Pu was released by the team after pleading guilty to two counts of assault on a woman. The club said Pu, of Richmond Hill, Ont., was no longer associated with the team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-356720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}