Anaheim Ducks forward Teemu Selanne says his next NHL season will be his last.

Selanne, a 10-time All-Star, celebrated his 39th birthday yesterday. He told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper in Finland that a man his age does not belong in the NHL.

Selanne recently contemplated retirement but decided to play for one more season.

He also pondered the possibility of playing with longtime Montreal captain Saku Koivu. The Ducks are a possible new team for Koivu, who is leaving the Canadiens after 13 years.

Finnish-born Selanne entered the NHL in 1992 at age 22 with the Winnipeg Jets. In his first season, he scored 76 goals to set a rookie record.

Selanne has 614 goals for Winnipeg, San Jose, Colorado and Anaheim.

Mark Recchi wants one last chance to be a Stanley Cup champ again.

Recchi, 41, a 20-year veteran who signed a one-year deal to return to the Bruins Thursday, said at a conference call yesterday that he'll likely call it quits after next season.

"I'm going to be honest with you. This will probably be it," he said. "I want to go out and finish it off right by winning another championship and help this team be successful. I'd say this will probably be it. I've got my family situation I've got to consider and kids I've got to consider.

"It's been a great run. I think I want to give it one more chance. I want to give everything I have to Boston and sail off into the sunset."

Recchi, obtained in a trade-deadline deal by the Bruins from Tampa Bay in March, was brought in to help Boston's playoff push.

But, after posting the Eastern Conference's best record in the regular season, Boston was eliminated in a seven-game, second-round series by Carolina. Despite the early exit, Recchi, a former Penguins player, feels like the Bruins have the pieces in place to make a run next spring.

Rick Nash and Columbus reached agreement on an eight-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson confirmed the signing. The Canadian Press first reported the signing, saying the deal is worth $62.4 million. Nash will make $7 million in 2009-10.

Nash, 25, who would have been an unrestricted free agent after next season, set career and team highs last season with his 79 points (40 goals, 39 assists) in 78 games in leading Columbus to its first trip to the playoffs in the franchise's eighth season.

The left winger from Brampton, Ontario, tied for the NHL lead in goals with 41 in the 2003-04 season.

Free-agent forward and former Penguin Mikael Samuelsson signed a $7.5 million, three-year contract with Vancouver. This Swedish right winger spent the past four seasons in Detroit, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008 and falling one game short this past season. He has 86 goals and 208 points in 466 career NHL games. Samuelsson also was part of Sweden's gold medal-winning team at the 2006 Turin Olympics.

Phoenix signed defenseman Shaun Heshka to a one-year contract. Financial terms were not disclosed. Heshka, 24, was acquired from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for the Coyotes' seventh-round draft choice (187th overall) in the recent NHL draft.