As always, Mike Grier was game, but he also wanted to be selective. If he were going to continue his NHL career, the 36-year-old winger wanted it to be back in Buffalo, one of the four cities he called home over his 1,060-game career, or here in Boston.

Forward Mike Grier is retiring after a 14-season NHL career that featured stints with four teams, including two separate stops with the Buffalo Sabres. The 36-year-old announced his retirement in a release issued by the NHL Players' Association on Thursday. Grier was a free agent after completing a one-year deal with the Sabres last season. Selected by St. Louis in the ninth round...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Forward Mike Grier is retiring after a 14-season NHL career that featured stints with four teams, including two separate stops with the Buffalo Sabres.

Forward Mike Grier is retiring after a 14-season NHL career that featured stints with four teams, including two separate stops with the Buffalo Sabres. The 36-year-old announced his retirement in a release issued by the NHL Players' Association on Thursday. Grier was a free agent after completing a one-year deal with the Sabres last season. Selected by St. Louis in the ninth round...

Forward Mike Grier is retiring after a 14-season NHL career that featured stints with four teams, including two separate stops with the Buffalo Sabres. The 36-year-old announced his retirement in a release issued by the NHL Players' Association on Thursday. Grier was a free agent after completing a one-year deal with the Sabres last season.

Mike Grier announced today that his 14-year career in the NHL is over. Of course ESPN took this as an opportunity to remind you that U.S. black guys don’t play hockey and that contrary to what you’ve been told, U.S. black dudes playing hockey is rare. Did you read that carefully. Black guys from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, etc. don’t play hockey. Don’t make it to the NHL...

  TORONTO (December 1, 2011) – Mike Grier, a hard-working and dependable winger who played his career with the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres and San Jose Sharks, announced his retirement today from the National Hockey League (NHL) following a career that spanned 14 seasons.   Grier, 36, appeared in a total of 1,060 regular season NHL games, recording 162...

Grier, who also played for the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres during 14 seasons, announced his retirement from the NHL Thursday

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Mike Grier retired today. A fine Oiler winger over several seasons, we could use four like him today. Sail on Mike Grier. We didn't forget you, never will.

I'm starting a new column today where I'm going to attempt to predict what will happen in the wacky world of the National Hockey League. These past few days have certainly been crazy with three coaches being fired from their teams, and today Mike Grier retired from the sport (Thanks for the run, Mike!). This will be a weekly column and it's meant to be fun so don't get angry...

Forward Mike Grier, who played for the Oilers, Capitals, Sabres and Sharks during 14 seasons, announced his retirement Thursday.

Mike Grier announced his retirement from the NHL on Thursday. The 36-year-old Grier had played in over 14 seasons - including the last two with the Buffalo Sabres. "I was very fortunate to be able to play 14 seasons in the NHL with some great players," Grier said in a statement. "The memories and friendships that I have built during my time in the league will last a lifetime...

from the NHLPA, Mike Grier, a hard-working and dependable winger who played his career with the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres and San Jose Sharks, announced his retirement today from the National Hockey League (NHL) following a career that spanned 14 seasons. Grier, 36, appeared in a total of 1,060 regular season NHL games, recording 162 goals and 221 assists...

1.  Joe Finley is called up from the Rochester Americans, and will wear the number 4. 2. Mike Grier has retired from professional hockey today, and retired after playing four seasons with the Buffalo Sabres. 3. Four points separate the Buffalo Sabres (27) from the Northeast Division leader Boston Bruins (31). 4. Thomas Vanek (12) needs four more goals to tie Phil Kessel (16) of...

You remember Mike Grier? Good dude. Played hard every night. Very easy to figure out what he brought to the table; Leadership, grit and checking. He had a identity because he played hard every night and it was easy to figure out what he was doing right. I have no clue what the Sabres identity is today and frankly, I don't even think they do. In watching the last...

from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe, • Low on the radar, but I really like Chicago’s one-year, $2 million deal for forward Andrew Brunette. OK, he’ll be 38 this month, but he consistently gets the job done, for a career stash of 1,032 games and 706 points. He missed all of two games the last three seasons in St. Paul. • Local agent Jay Fee continues to hunt for a...

Mike Grier is one of those wingers who isn’t the most dynamic player, doesn’t score a lot of goals, and isn’t a “one-man” show, however his play is defined by his experience, his grit, and his smooth playing skills on the ice. The 36 year old veteran winger is coming off his 14th season scattered around the NHL. Recently with Buffalo, he’s also played with...

 The majority of this year's free agency was decided in the first week of the free agency. Hell, most of it in the first day. With the vast amount of players either resigning with their old team, or packing up and signing a new deal with a new team, the free agency pool has begin to empty. However, even though the first wave of free agents has been locked up, there still remains...

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The Buffalo Sabres elimination from the first round of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs by the Philadelphia Flyers came in heartbreaking fashion, having taken a 3-2 series lead only to see the Flyers rally back to win in seven games.  It was a tremendous effort nevertheless by a Sabres team which at mid-season appeared destined to miss the playoffs, but caught fire through the...

from Bucky Gleason of the Buffalo News, Mike Grier was still sitting by himself in the far corner of the quiet visitors’ dressing room in Wells Fargo Center about 20 minutes after the season ended, in full equipment with his head buried in his hands. He was in tears while thinking about the game, the year to remember, his future. You don’t come across many people like Grier...

Its official. Derek Roy and Jochen Hecht are officialy in the lineup tonight. Pat Kaleta is out. Mike Grier... wait and see. If 25 cannot play, Mark Mancari will take his place. _______________________________________________________________________ I'll be on Twitter during the game. Feel it! @HockeybuzzGarth...

Big news going into Game 7 is ... Patrick Kaleta is out with what is rumored to be a broken hand and that Jordan Leopold is a game-time decision with a re-aggravation of a previous injury. Mike Grier is a healthy scratch. Derek Roy, as we all knew, is in replacing Tim Connolly. For the Flyers, as I tweeted this morning, Johan Backlund is the No. 3. The BBB Trio is now...

The plot thickens... Injured or espionage? Pat Kaleta and Mike Grier were absent from Buffalo practice on Monday. Neither is on the ice right now in Philly. If they are indeed injured, Buffalo have re-inforecement in tow. Mark Mancari was recalled from Portland and will likely play tonight in place of Kaleta. Matt Ellis is still in the lineup. Jochen Hecht was...