NHL enforcer Ryan Reaves announces retirement after 16 seasons

One of the NHL’s most well-known enforcers is stepping away from the game. After 16 seasons and 962 games, Ryan Reaves took to Instagram to announce his retirement from the NHL. “It’s hard to put into words what you meant to me. What you mean to me,” Reaves said in his instagram post. “I had dreams of being an athlete. Football, hockey—it didn’t matter. I learned at a young age that I just wanted to lay people out. The physical part of sports was what I was always drawn to. I knew that’s what I wanted, but tell 10-year-old Reavo…