RETIREMENT Injuries, family reasons cited by goaltender Roy

He finishes with four Stanley Cup championships and a host of records.
DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy retired today, ending an 18-year career that includes nearly every major goaltending record.
"It's going to be sad for hockey," Anaheim goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere said Tuesday. "He's a great goaltender, probably the best that's ever played."
Credits
Roy is a four-time Stanley Cup champion -- two each with Colorado and Montreal -- and is the only three-time winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the playoff MVP. He is the league's career leader in victories with 551 and games played with 1,029, and he's also tops in playoff victories, games played and shutouts.
Roy is still considered one of the best goalies in the game at age 37, but has been bothered by arthritic hips the past few years. He also has made it clear he wants to follow the career of his oldest son, Jonathan, a goalie who will start playing in Saskatchewan this fall.
"Obviously, it's a sad day for all the hockey fans here in Denver," said Colorado Rockies right fielder Larry Walker, an Avs season ticket holder. "You're taking the best goalie of my era and everybody's era, and he's packing it in."
Before Roy broke into the league with Montreal in 1985, most goalies either stayed on their feet or stacked their pads to stop shots.
Glenn Hall and Tony Esposito helped develop the butterfly style of dropping to their knees to stop shots. Roy made the style popular during his record-setting career.
Roy is the NHL's career leader with 23 playoff shutouts, and his 247 games and 151 wins are well ahead of Grant Fuhr, who is second with 150 games and 92 wins.
Highs, lows
Roy had his best regular season in 2001-02, with a 1.94 goals-against average and a career-high nine shutouts, but the playoffs ended in disappointment after he allowed six goals in a 7-0 loss to Detroit in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals.
Roy struggled early this season, but was unbeaten in 26 of his final 30 starts. He helped the Avalanche move past Vancouver and win the Northwest Division title. He finished fourth in the league with 35 wins and had a 2.18 goals-against average.
In Roy's nine seasons in Denver, Colorado won two Stanley Cup titles, reached the Western Conference finals six times and set an NHL record with nine straight division titles.
Colorado won its first Stanley Cup in 1996, when Roy had three shutouts and a 2.10 goals-against average. The second came in 2001, when he had four shutouts and a 1.70 GAA, and was named playoff MVP.