San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture (39) seen walking down the runway to the ice at SAP Center in San Jose had announced that he was retiring from hockey on Tue Apr 14, 2025 (photo by San Jose Sharks)

San Jose Sharks podcast Charanbir Mahal:

#1 San Jose Sharks team captain Logan Couture is hanging up the skates after playing in the NHL and all 15 seasons with the San Jose Sharks from 2009-10 to 2023-24. Couture had been suffering from a debilitating injury where he played six games in Jan 2024 before having to go out with the injury.

#2 Charanbir, talk about the impact that it had on the team when Couture was out with the injury and it just kept being prolonged that he wasn’t coming back and people realized it was more serious than it first looked?

#3 Couture’s injury came when he couldn’t skate anymore in January 2024. The Sharks medical team decided the decision had to be made that Couture had to stop playing until he was physically able to improve.

#4 The debilitating injury that Couture was suffering from was called ostetis pubis it’s an inflammation of the joint between the left and right pubic bones. The injury was so bad that he couldn’t skate or even practice and the expectations were Couture would make it back but Couture couldn’t recover enough to get back to playing again.

#5 Couture 36, was a presence in the Sharks dressing room and he lifted the spirits of San Jose. He was the glue and the players responded around him and even during the Sharks post season years.

Charanbir Mahal is a reporter for INDTVUSA, does Sharks Snap Shot, and San Jose Sharks podcasts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com