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Originally Posted by getbak
Reinhart's career ended so early too. This season, Sam is the same age Paul was when he played his final season.
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Speaking of retiring young, does anyone remember what the story was with Chouinard? He was only 27 when he played his last season, and he still put up 46 points in 64 games. He came back the next season, had 7 points in 9 games in the IHL and then retired. Did he have an injury?
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It's weird because he was only traded for future consierations after a 72 point season here.
From a chat room so take it for what it's worth:
Well, Chouinard was basically chased out of St. Louis by GM Ron Caron.
He first ended up in the doghouse of Jacques Demers and was a healthy scratch for the majority of the 1984 playoffs. Then in the summer Caron told Guy Chouinard and Jack Carlson that their days were over with the Blues and that the team would go with younger players.Carlson was one month away from being 30 and Chouinard was still only 27.
Chouinard was not invited to training camp in the fall and it wasn’t until early January 1985 that the Blues management contacted Chouinard again. He was still under contract and was told that they might need his services again in case the Blues would run into injuries.
They asked him to get into shape by playing some games in Peoria, but after a month there they told him he wasn’t needed anymore. By that point he was thinking about a coaching career. I am not sure though why he didn’t try to hook up with another team, maybe he was just fed up with it all.
I also read that injuries were piling up for him. And he'd become a PP specialist, and fell way behind Federko and Gilmour in the depth chart.