In an interview with the Alaska Dispatch News, veteran NHL forward Scott Gomez revealed that he is retiring from professional hockey after 16 NHL seasons. He is one of those players whose legacy is going to be very different depending on whom you talk to, but there's no question that he was one of the more unique players to enter the league and excel for a good portion of his career.
He isn't going to be a Hall of Famer or anything, but Gomez had a career worthy of remembering. The Anchorage, Alaska native was a trailblazer in some ways.