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Patrice Bergeron, who spent his entire 19-season career with the Boston Bruins, has decided to retire from hockey after months of speculation about his playing status.
The Boston Bruins selected Bergeron with the 45th overall choice in the second round of the 2003 NHL entry lottery. The Bruins and the young hockey player agreed to a three-year, $1.5 million deal with a budget cost of $515,333.
Bergeron agreed to a five-year contract for $23,750,000 in 2006, with an annual salary of $4,750,000. He subsequently agreed to a $15,000,000, three-year contract in 2011. Then, the talented center signed an eight-year, $55,000,000 deal with an average annual salary of $6,875,000.
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He inked a one-year $5 million deal with the Boston Bruins in August 2022. The contract had a $2.5 million cap hit and a $1 million signing bonus. Patrice Bergeron turned 38 at the end of the 2022–23 season and became an unrestricted free agent. There was much speculation about whether it would be his last contract and that proved to be the case.
Patrice Bergeron's net worth as of 2023 is $5 million, according to therichest.com.
Patrice Bergeron's NHL career
In 1,294 regular-season games, Patrice Bergeron finished with 427 goals and 613 assists for a total of 1,040 points. He had 128 points in 170 postseason games after scoring 50 goals and 78 assists.
In addition, Bergeron won the Frank J. Selke Trophy six times in a row as the greatest defensive forward in the NHL. Prior to winning it in 2022 and 2023 in his final two seasons, Bergeron won it in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017.
Bergeron ranks third in Bruins history in games played, third in goals, fourth in assists and sixth in plus-minus in the regular season. In terms of postseason ranks, he's second in games played and tied for second in playoff points.
His greatest accomplishment came in 2011, when he helped the Bruins end a 39-year Stanley Cup drought. In 23 postseason games that year, Bergeron contributed six goals and 14 assists. He also scored a shorthanded goal in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to give Boston a 3-0 lead against Vancouver late in the second period.
He played Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals with a broken rib and a punctured lung, making him a Bruins legend.
