{"id":182124,"date":"2025-10-01T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182124\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:50:14","slug":"pacioretty-retires-from-nhl-after-17-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182124\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacioretty retires from NHL after 17 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/max-pacioretty-8474157\" title=\"Max Pacioretty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Pacioretty<\/a> announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday after 17 seasons and joined the University of Michigan as a special assistant to the head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old forward had 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in 37 regular-season games for the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. He also had eight points (three goals, five assists) in 11 Stanley Cup Playoff games, which ranked fourth on the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 17 seasons in the NHL, I&#8217;m excited to begin this next chapter with Michigan Hockey,&#8221; Pacioretty said. &#8220;I&#8217;m so thankful for the teammates, coaches and fans who have been a part of my journey. Hockey has given me so much, and now I have the opportunity to help develop the next generation of players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round (No. 22) of the 2007 NHL Draft, Pacioretty had arguably his best NHL season in 2014-15, when he tied his NHL career high with 67 points (37 goals, 30 assists) in 80 games and also tied Tampa Bay Lightning forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-kucherov-8476453\" title=\"Nikita Kucherov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> for the NHL lead in plus\/minus (plus-38).<\/p>\n<p>Following that season, on Sept. 18, 2015, Pacioretty was named captain of the Canadiens following a vote by the players. He held that role until he was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on Sept. 10, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Pacioretty continued to thrive with Vegas, playing his first NHL All-Star Game in 2019-20, when he had 66 points (32 goals, 34 assists) in 71 games. He scored 236 goals from 2013-14 to 2020-21, which ranked seventh in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>However, injuries began taking a toll on Pacioretty during the 2021-22 season, when he was limited to 39 games with Vegas because of a broken foot and wrist injury, which required surgery. He was then traded to the Carolina Hurricanes on July 13, 2022, but before he could play a game for them, he tore his right Achilles tendon during training. When he returned for the Hurricanes, he played in only five games before he tore his Achilles again in a game against the Minnesota Wild on Jan. 19, 2023, requiring another surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Pacioretty announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday after 17 seasons and joined the University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-182124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182124","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=182124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}