{"id":119863,"date":"2025-09-04T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119863\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:44:09","slug":"defenceman-marco-scandella-announces-retirement-from-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119863\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenceman Marco Scandella announces retirement from NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Scandella is hanging up his skates for good.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian defenceman announced his retirement from the NHL on Thursday after 14 big-league seasons. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old last played in 2023-24, when he suited up for 65 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"st-louis-blues\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, scoring two goals and eight points. <\/p>\n<p>Selected 55th overall by Minnesota in the 2008 NHL Draft, Scandella spent parts of seven seasons with the Wild. <\/p>\n<p>Across his 784-game NHL career, the Montreal native also spent time with the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens before finishing off his career with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Scandella closes the book on his career with 51 goals and 119 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Scandella is hanging up his skates for good. The Canadian defenceman announced his retirement from the NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-119863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}