Adam Burish

Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa often said he would keep playing hockey as long as his body allowed him to continue.

Hossa’s body may have decided for him.

In a stunning development, Hossa will not play in the 2017-18 season and perhaps longer because of a “progressive skin disorder” and the “severe side effects” of the medication used to treat it, Hossa said in a statement the Hawks released Wednesday morning.

“Over the course of the last few years, under the supervision of the Blackhawks medical staff, I have been privately undergoing treatment for a progressive skin disorder and the side effects of the medications involved to treat the disorder,” Hossa said in the...