Ryan Gunderson makes his retirement official

Ryan Gunderson already told the "Freiburger Nachrichten" in mid-December that he would almost certainly retire at the end of the season. He did, however, never officially confirm his retirement after that article. 

Gunderson has now closed this chapter of his life, as he tells "Hockeysverige.se": "I may have only mentioned it briefly before. But this was the last season. I decided it halfway into the season. [...] I get to finish in a good place. [...] It wouldn't have been fun to go around and have problems out there for a year and think, "maybe I shouldn't have continued." It feels like the right time, and it feels good."

The American forward can look back on a long hockey career. He played NCAA hockey for the University of Vermont, played in the ECHL and AHL before heading over to Sweden in 2010. He suited up for Örebro and Brynäs until he joined Jokerit in 2014 and Dinamo Minsk in 2015. In 2016, he then returned to Brynäs where he stayed until he signed with HC Fribourg-Gottéron in 2019.