Martin St. Louis retired on July 2, 2015, finishing his career with 1,134 games played, 391 goals, 642 assists, and 1,033 points. No one can deny St. Louis’ rise from a nobody to a star. An undersized and underappreciated player who always had to fight harder than anyone else to get recognized, he made it this far — to see his name flown high on a banner at Amalie Arena.
St. Louis is a Hall of Fame player who is to be enshrined not as a Ranger, but as a Bolt. This is something that we all need to remember: his exodus to New York, as painful as it was, will only equate to a footnote in his long career (remember, Gretzky was a Blue for just one season).