Clutterbuck announced his retirement from the NHL on April 23 after 16 seasons as a forward with the Minnesota Wild and New York Islanders. He retired as the all-time hits leader and had 293 points (143 goals, 150 assists) in 1,064 regular-season games and 20 points (12 goals, eight assists) in 81 Stanley Cup Playoff games, which included back-to-back trips to the third round with the Islanders in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n
Clutterbuck was selected by Minnesota in the third round (No. 72) of the 2006 NHL Draft. He was acquired by New York for forward Nino Niederreiter<\/a> on June 30, 2013, and became a longtime member of the \u201cIdentity Line\u201d for the Islanders alongside Matt Martin<\/a> and Casey Cizikas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Martin retired after last season but is remaining with New York as a special assistant to new general manager Mathieu Darche. He is second on the NHL\u2019s all-time hits list behind Clutterbuck with 3,936. Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin<\/a> is third (3,743) but has played 427 more games than Clutterbuck and 504 more than Martin.<\/p>\n \u201cI miss some of the things around playing hockey — being in the room and hanging out kind of feeling you\u2019re a part of a group that\u2019s trying accomplish something,\u201d Clutterbuck said. \u201cBut as far as like getting ready for 82 games a year and going out and playing the way that I was playing \u2026 I loved it, don\u2019t get me wrong. I loved every minute of it. But there comes a point when you get removed from it for a year and you\u2019re like, \u2018Gosh, I\u2019m not sure how I did that for that long.\u2019 For me to go back to it, I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a thing, so I don\u2019t think about it that much.\u201d<\/p>\n