FILE - Finland’s Valtteri Filppula warms up for a men’s semifinal hockey game against Slovakia at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, file)
FILE - In this June 4, 2008 file photo, Detroit Red Wings center Valtteri Filppula, of Finland, holds the Stanley Cup after the Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup hockey finals in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
FILE - Geneve-Servette’s forward Valtteri Filppula lifts the trophy after winning at the Champions Hockey League Final game between Switzerland’s Geneve-Servette HC and Sweden’s Skelleftea AIK, at the ice stadium Les Vernets, in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Cyril Zingaro//Keystone via AP, File)
FILE - Finland’s Valtteri Filppula warms up for a men’s semifinal hockey game against Slovakia at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, file)
HELSINKI (AP) — Valtteri Filppula has decided to retire from hockey at age 41 after playing one final season at home in his native Finland.
Filppula announced Tuesday he is calling it a career. He is one of just 30 players — and the only Finn — in the Triple Gold Club for winning the Stanley Cup, Olympics and world championships.
He was a trusted, two-way forward for the Detroit Red Wings during their Cup run in 2008. at the Beijing Games in 2022.
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Filppula played 1,222 regular-season and playoff games in the NHL with Detroit, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and the New York Islanders from 2005-21. He continued playing in Europe, helping Genève-Servette HC win the Swiss league in 2023 and the Champions Hockey League in ‘24.
He played for Helsinki-based Jokerit in Finland’s second-level Mestis league this past season.
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