My first player, Nicholas Owens, retired in s70 (technically s69 but Tomen was gracious enough to let me play a few games to reach 1000gp). I had planned to stick around with that player at least another 2-3 seasons since I was looking to get the franchice record for gps and maybe even climb the all time playoff gp leaderboard but Buffalo was able to pull in some free agent defenseman that meant my spot wasn't really needed so I decided to retire a stampede lifer. The last like 7-8 seasons of my career I was not too involved so I didn't mind getting to retire earlier than expected