Brian Campbell didn’t get a contract offer from the Chicago Blackhawks before deciding to retire from the NHL after 17 seasons, the longtime defenseman revealed at his press conference Tuesday.
"They were going to move in a different direction. That was fine with me,” Campbell said at the United Center after being asked whether the Blackhawks showed interest in bringing him back.
Campbell took a discounted one-year, $1.5 million deal with the Blackhawks last season to finish his career in Chicago. He told reporters Tuesday that he took calls from other teams this summer regarding the possibility of playing elsewhere, but in the end he decided it was time to hang up the skates and move into the next phase of his life.