Red Wings overnight report: On Chris Osgood?s retirement, his legacy and his successor

The Red Wings have all but telegraphed every move they?ve made over the past year or so minus signing Ian White and Mike Commodore, and just as it?s been obvious for over two weeks that the team would sign Ty Conklin to back up Jimmy Howard later today, as much as those of us who believe that Chris Osgood is a Red Wings Hall-of-Famer regardless of his status in pundits? eyes kinda knew, from the moment that sports hernia specialist William Meyers opened up Chris Osgood?s groin and went, ?Whoa, there?s some serious damage in here!?...

Osgood?s days as a Red Wing?perhaps like those of Kris Draper, who?ll either have to agree to do what is unthinkable to him now and fight for a job during training camp if he wishes to continue playing?were numbered. When Osgood couldn?t return to the Wings? net after four months of attempts to recover from sports hernia surgery that ended up repairing and reattaching ligaments that had been shorn off bone, Osgood agreed that he could not guarantee that his groin would be anything less than a liability in waiting, and he retired on Tuesday to become what Chris Chelios already is to the team?s prospect defensemen and what Draper will probably be to the team?s forwards-in-waiting?a mentor to the team?s goaltending prospects.

As pundits went into overload discussing Osgood?s legacy, Osgood himself delivered the best assessment of his career via a nearly hour-long press conference, which you can listen to here?

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