Andrew Agozzino Retires From Professional Hockey

an assist in his first career game. After several seasons in the AHL, with a few small NHL stints mixed in, he scored his first NHL goal on February 18, 2019, assisted by Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon in a 3-0 win against the Vegas Golden Knights.

“Just pure excitement,” Agozzino said when asked about his first career goal. “It’s special and tough to put into words. There was a lot of emotion after I saw it go in.”

Over the years that followed, Agozzino built a reputation as a reliable, well-respected pro wherever he landed. He joined the Pittsburgh Penguins organization ahead of the 2019-20 season, then moved to the Anaheim Ducks in February 2020, staying with the club through the 2021 season. Stops with the Ottawa Senators and San Jose Sharks organizations followed; in 2022-23, with San Jose, he captained the Sharks’ AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda.

In July 2024, Agozzino signed with the Utah organization, where he spent his final two professional seasons. He closed out his career this past season for Utah’s AHL affiliate, Tucson, posting 19 goals and 20 assists in 56 games, a fitting close to a career built on grit and consistency.

Along the way, Agozzino also suited up for AHL clubs in San Antonio, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, San Diego, and Belleville, giving him one of the most well-traveled résumés of any player of his era.

Agozzino’s career totals place him among the AHL’s all-time greats. 847 regular-season AHL games (29th all-time), 662 career points on 284 goals (28th all-time) and 378 assists (48th all-time), eight 20-goal seasons, and earned three AHL All-Star Classic selections in 2013, 2019, and 2020. At the NHL level, he appeared in 53 games across six franchises: Colorado, Anaheim, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, San Jose, and Utah.

Agozzino’s impact extended well past his production on the ice. He won the AHL’s IOA/American Specialty Man of the Year award, which recognizes a player’s outstanding contributions to the local community and charitable organizations, twice, first with San Jose in 2022-23 and again with Tucson in 2025-26. In a remarkable 11 of his 14 AHL seasons, Agozzino wore a letter, a testament to how, despite changing teams so frequently, his teammates consistently viewed him as a leader in every locker room he walked into.

PHR extends its congratulations to Andrew on an outstanding professional career and wishes him all the best in the next chapter.

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