Milan Lucic Signed In Scotland And People Are Quitting Their Jobs Over It

The Elite Ice Hockey League, the top level of hockey in the U.K., doesn't get a lot of big names. NHLers who have washed out of North America tend to head to the Continent: Sweden, Finland, Russia et al., all offer more money, better facilities, and a bigger spotlight for a pro to, perhaps, play their way back to the NHL. So it's a rare day when an EIHL team signs a 17-year NHL veteran. But the last-place Fife Flyers are desperate, and Milan Lucic even more so.

Lucic, after stints in Boston, Los Angeles, Edmonton, and Calgary, hasn't played in the NHL since November 2023, when he was arrested and charged with assault and battery of his then-wife, who told police he had pulled her hair and choked her. Lucic was placed on indefinite leave by the Bruins, and remained on it for the rest of the season, even though charges were dropped in February 2024 after Lucic's wife refused to testify. (She filed for divorce two months later.)