EL SEGUNDO AND LOS ANGELES, CA — After signing with the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2013-14 season, superstar center Vincent Lecavalier played in just 133 regular season games and was out of the Flyers’ plans this season, playing in just seven games.
For a player who scored 411 goals and contributed 511 assists for 932 points in 1,170 regular season games in the National Hockey League, and won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2003-04, being relegated to the press box was very disappointing.
Conventional wisdom dictated that the 35-year-old native of Ile Bizard, Quebec, who was the first overall selection by Tampa Bay in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, was pretty much washed up.