A hard-working forward who played a long time for the Arizona Coyotes before joining the Detroit Red Wings, along with a one-game Columbus Blue Jackets cameo, has called it quits on his NHL career.
And he’s done it quite early, at age 28.
Christian Fischer revealed to The Athletic’s Max Bultman that he has chosen to retire rather than seek a new contract in unrestricted free agency.
“Over the last couple years, I think I just look at my life and what makes me happy, and being around family and kind of my life in Scottsdale,” Fischer told The Athletic. “… In the end, I’m very thankful for the career I had, but just personally I think I know it’s time for a new chapter in my life.”
Fischer played 46 games as a fourth-line forward in 2024-25, with 45 of those games for Detroit.
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He had just seven points, but as recently as two seasons ago, he had 27 points.
Fischer closes his NHL career having played in 523 games, scoring 62 goals and dishing out 75 assists. He also had 978 hits in his career.
Fischer entered the NHL as a second-round pick by the Coyotes in 2015, and he lasted a decade in pro hockey.
“If you told me that when I was 10 years old, ‘You’re going to play 500 games in the NHL,’ I would be the happiest kid you’ve ever seen,” Fischer told The Athletic.
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