Today Mike Modano announced his retirement after 1499 regular season games played. As is my policy, I am writing a career retrospective on him as I consider him a future Hockey Hall of Fame player. Here was the post I made when I first considered him a Hall of Famer.
Modano was born on June 7th, 1970 in Livonia, Michigan. He first gathered the attention of hockey scouts as a 15 year old playing in the Michigan National Hockey League (MNHL) for Detroit Compuware. He scored 131 points in 69 games and was a local hockey star. Modano chose to come to Canada to play in the CHL. He went to Saskatchewan to play for the Prince Albert Raiders. He scored 62 points as a 16 year old rookie in the WHL and was actively recruited by several US colleges. Modano turned down at least three scholarship offers to remain in Prince Albert. In his second WHL season, Modano scored 127 points and starred for the US in the World Junior Championships with five points in seven games.
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