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Former Ontario Junior Hockey League goaltender Drew MacIntyre has hung up the goal pads.

The former member of the Trenton Sting (now Golden Hawks) announced his retirement from professional hockey Thursday. MacIntyre had just finished a successful season with Japan’s Oji Eagles, winners of the 2020-21 Asia League championship. 

MacIntyre, 37, played for Trenton during the 1988-89 season. He had a 3.63 GAA and two shutouts in 20 OJHL games.

He played the next four seasons with Sherbrooke in the QMJHL before turning pro.

The fourth-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings in the 2001 NHL Draft would play six games in the NHL with Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs.

MacIntyre also spent time in the Atlanta Thrashers and Carolina Hurricanes organizations.   

He was twice named a second-team all-star in the American Hockey League, is in the league’s top-10 all-time for wins as a goaltender – and scored an AHL goal as goalie.   

He also played in the KHL and in Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

MacIntyre represented Canada at the world U17 (2000) and U18 (2001) championships and three Spengler Cup invitational tournaments in Switzerland, from 2015-17. He won gold three times, once at the U18 level and twice at the Spengler.

"I am just so grateful for this journey that me and my girls have been on. It was one that I can look back on and know that I gave it absolutely everything I had," MacIntyre said in a written release published by CBC. 

"I just couldn't be more grateful for the ups and the downs, the experiences and the lessons learned that have shaped me into the man, husband and father that I am today." 

MacIntyre now lives in Charlottetown with his wife, Karen, and children Mullen and Sallie, who both play minor hockey.

He owns State of Mind Goaltending by Drew MacIntyre and is an active Hockey P.E.I. high performance program staff member.