Jesse Boulerice’s wife announces his retirement on Facebook

Some players hold press conferences to announce their retirements from the NHL. Others opt for interviews with friendly journalists. Still others are content to have the NHLPA issue press releases on their behalf. Very few, and perhaps none, have retired via their wife announcing it on Facebook. That is, until the wife of tough guy Jesse Boulerice of the AHL's Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced his retirement last week on the WBS Penguins Facebook page, in a message to fans/advertisement for her juice pill business: OK, so it's no Gretzky retirement press conference. But in fairness, we're not even sure if Janet had a Geocities home page back in 1999 to announce it herself ... Surreal nature of the announcement aside, quite the legacy of infamy for Mr. Boulerice, no? In the 1998 OHL playoffs, he swung his stick and hit Andrew Long in the face, giving the Guelph Storm 19-year-old "a broken nose, multiple facial fractures, a Grade III concussion accompanied by...