Coventry Blaze Ice Hockey team will honour the 39-year-old Canadian Adam Calder by retiring his No 25 jersey prior to Saturday's Elite League game with Cardiff Devils at the Skydome.
Calder joined Blaze at the start of the 2004/05 campaign and in a glittering six-season career played 384 games, posting 534 points (257 goals and 277 assists). He remains the all-time leading goalscorer in Coventry colours.
Ashley Tait, who played alongside Calder for three seasons, said to the Blaze website: "Calds was one of those guys who was kind of quiet but just went about his business very well.
"If he was having a bad night you kind of just left him alone because you knew he would come good if you put the puck in the right area.
"There was no better natural goalscorer I have played with over the years. He was calm and collected, he did not say much but when he did you listened.
"He served this club extremely well for a lot of years. There are only two numbers up there and it is very apt and well deserved."