Sharks’ Logan Couture set to announce end of playing career

SAN JOSE — San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture will hold a press conference on Tuesday to announce he cannot continue his playing career.

Dealing with an often painful injury called osteitis pubis, Couture, 36, has not played an NHL game this season and has been out of the Sharks’ lineup since Jan. 31, 2024.

After playing just six games and missing the final three-plus months of the 2023-24 season, Couture had hoped to resume skating last summer in an effort to come back this season. But Couture, while still being around the team for at least the first half of this season, has been unable to resume on-ice training.

Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli first reported the details of Couture’s announcement.

Couture was drafted ninth overall by the Sharks in 2007 and has played in 933 games in the NHL, all with San Jose. On the Sharks’ all-time list, Couture is fourth in points (701), third in goals (323), and fifth in assists (378).

Couture and Sharks general manager Mike Grier will hold a joint press conference on Tuesday at SAP Center at 1:30 p.m.

Couture is in the sixth year of an eight-year, $64 million contract he signed with the Sharks in July 2018, a year before he was set to become an unrestricted free agent.

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