He’s 41 years old and still playing, and apparently this isn’t his last season. According to Klaus Zaugg of Swiss website Watson, both he and his club have plans for him to return for at least one more season.

“We will extend Andres Ambühl's contract for another year,” said HC Davos manager Marc Gianola.

It wouldn’t have been a surprise to see Ambühl hang up his skates at the end of this season, as he now owns several longevity records in the hockey world and in particular, in Switzerland. He is the all-time leader in IIHF World Championship top-tier tournaments at 19 and World Championship top-tier games played at 141.

This season, he broke the National League record for regular-season games played in September and all-time games played (regular season and playoffs combined) in October. His production isn’t what it once was, though. Through 21 games, he has no goals and seven assists.

Gianola acknowledges that Ambühl can’t play the same offensive role he did in the past “but he knows that himself and fits into the team accordingly.”

Davos is the club that Ambühl started with as a child and, other than three seasons playing in Zurich for the ZSC Lions and one season in the AHL for the Hartford Wolf Pack, it is where he’s played his entire career. Like Valtteri Filppula, who returned to maternal club Jokerit in Helsinki this season, his playing career is approaching an unspecified endpoint but, when it ends, he will continue in a prominent off-ice role.

“It’s clear to us that Andres will continue to work for the club after his playing career ends,” said Gianola, who admitted he’s not exactly sure what that role would be.

Zaugg speculates that Ambühl’s extensive knowledge about the players in the league would make him suitable to be the club’s next sports director.