Go Away Roenick!!!

On 9/4/07, Jeremy Roenick announced that he will be returning to the NHL, this time with the San Jose Sharks. How many times have we seen this: former superstars that hang around the league too long instead of retiring at the top of their game. It happens to the best of us; Brett Favre, Cal Ripken, even his airness Michael Jordan. This will be Roenick’s 7th team in 19 seasons. In ’05, with the Kings, Roenick spent the season plagued with injuries, scoring a career low 9 goals in 58 games. He spent more time playing hold-em at the Commerce Casino then on the ice. Roenick then bounced to Gretzky’s Coyotes, where he topped his previous year’s performance with a whopping 11 goals over 70 games. Now he’ll try to “contribute” to the Sharks, intangibles I presume. No disrespect, but we don’t want to remember you as that guy who stayed around too long. We want your name to conjure up memories of when you scored 50-60 goals a season, when you were the man in Chicago, when you made Gretzky’s head bleed in Swingers. We will always remember you as one of the greats. Just retire so we can do so.