Former Leaf calls it a career
A former Toronto Maple Leafs forward took to Twitter this morning to announce that he's retiring from professional hockey. Peter Holland was a Leaf between 2013 and 2016 playing in 174 games scoring 63 points. Holland wore the blue and white during one of the franchise's darkest eras but was a serviceable bottom-6 forward during his time in Toronto. In December, 2016 he was traded to the Arizona Coyotes and infamously scored a shootout winner for the Yotes in his return to Toronto.
Holland played 266 NHL games between the Leafs, Ducks, Coyotes and Rangers - last playing in the show in 2018. Holland went on to have very productive seasons in the AHL and in Europe, but after leaving his club in the Swedish league this season, the 31-year-old called it a career.
In a Twitter thread, Holland expressed how much it meant to him to live his childhood dream and play for the Leafs. Holland admitted that his passion for hockey went downhill when he left Toronto but he's lucky that he's going out on his own terms.
Holland now gets to spend more time with his family and we wish him the best of luck in whatever comes next.
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