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Retirement has come for former Canadien Sheldon Souray with less noise than his legendary slap shot, the big defenceman slipping quietly into post-hockey life when his contract with the Anaheim Ducks expired on June 30.

“I’ve been retired for two years, you know?” Souray said with a laugh on the weekend, speaking from his summer home in northwestern Idaho. “This is nothing more than just kind of confirming things.”

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Souray played his final NHL game on May 12, 2013, his Ducks eliminated by the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference quarter-finals.

He skated in 758 games from 1997 to 2013, for the New Jersey Devils, then the Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars and finally Anaheim, playing 40 more in six seasons of playoffs.

Souray’s January 2014 surgery to repair torn wrist ligaments — even he might have lost count of the number of operations he had on the joint — sidelined him for all of last season, his final year in a three-year Ducks deal.