Former Penguins forward Carl Hagelin has retired from hockey because of an eye injury suffered in March of 2022. The 35-year-old Hagelin made his NHL debut in 2011 with the New York Rangers after they drafted him in the sixth round in 2007. He was traded to Anaheim in 2015, and in January 2016 he was traded to the Penguins in exchange for forward David Perron and defenseman Adam Clendening.
In three seasons and parts of a fourth before being traded to the LA Kings, Hagelin scored 27 goals with 56 assists and skated on the famed HBK line with Phil Kessell and Nick Bonino, winning two Stanley Cups.
The Kings traded him to the Capitals for the final three-and-a-half years of his career.
