After a 15-year NHL career and 1,037 regular-season games (1,024 of which came in a red and black uniform), Travis Zajac is calling it a career. He signed a one-day contract with the New Jersey Devils on Sept. 20 to retire with the team he spent most of his career with.
Drafted back in 2004, Zajac is the last link to the most successful era in franchise history. Although he was drafted in 2004 (20th overall) following the Devils’ third Stanley Cup championship in 2003 and never got his name on one himself, he grew up in New Jersey learning from legends when he began his NHL career in 2006 and passed that knowledge on as his career evolved.