{"id":3624,"date":"2025-07-18T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3624\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:53:04","slug":"former-bruins-backup-goaltender-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3624\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bruins Backup Goaltender Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran goaltender Jaroslav Hal\u00e1k officially announced his retirement from professional hockey <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1946190104235557060\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goaltender played 17 seasons in the NHL, including three with the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m done,\u201d Hal\u00e1k said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denniksport.sk\/hokej\/c\/jaroslav-halak-ukoncil-karieru-spomienky-uspechy-buducnost-rozhovor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a recent interview with Tom\u00e1\u0161 Prokop<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Denn\u00edk \u0160port, translated through Google Translate. \u201cI\u2019ll never wear the pads again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He originally signed a two-year, $5.5 million contract in Boston in 2018 as a backup to star goaltender Tuukka Rask. As a backup, Halak was reliable for the Bruins, proving to be solid when they needed him. <\/p>\n<p>In 90 games across three seasons in Boston, the 40-year-old posted a 49-23-14 record, a .918 save percentage and a 2.40 goals-against average. During his first year with the Bruins, he played in 40 games, posting a 22-1-4 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The following season, Halak and Rask won the William M. Jennings Trophy after allowing the fewest goals against during the regular season. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Across 17 seasons, he played 581 games, totaling 295 wins and a 0.915 career save percentage. He played for seven different teams, including the New York Rangers, Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues. <\/p>\n<p>His final season was with the Rangers during the 2022-23 season and went 10-9-5 with a 2.72 goals-against average and .903 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran goaltender Jaroslav Hal\u00e1k officially announced his retirement from professional hockey on Friday. The goaltender played 17 seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}