It's time, wrote the 39-year-old Swede on Friday at Twitter . I dedicated the past 30 years of my life to the ice hockey game. Now it's time to pass on the game and start a new chapter. At a press conference in Gothenburg, he remembered that he had seen his first ice hockey at the age of five years. Despite new heart valve, Lundqvist comeback planned Lundqvist played for the New York Rangers in the North America league NHL for 15 years. Last October he signed a one-year contract with Washington Capitals, but did not work for heart problems. In January, a new heart flap was used. Actually, he wanted to come back again, but he had the slight training chest pain, he reported in the newspaper New York Post. Lundqvist was awarded the Best Goalkeeper in NHL 2012. With the Swedish national team he was in 2006 in Turin Olympic champion, won 2014 in Sochi Silver and took the world championship title in 2017. Only the championship title in the NHL was missing Lundqvist for inclusio...