{"id":18446,"date":"2025-07-23T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:09:06","slug":"former-canadiens-jets-defenceman-nathan-beaulieu-retires-from-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18446\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Canadiens, Jets defenceman Nathan Beaulieu retires from NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longtime defenceman announced his retirement from the NHL on Wednesday following 12 years in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu, 32, ends his career two points shy of 100 with 12 goals and 86 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected 17th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> in the 2011 Draft, the Strathroy, Ont., native made his NHL debut with the team during the 2012-13 season and went on to play four more seasons with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu quickly became a staple on the blue line and enjoyed a career year in 2016-17, skating in 74 games while collecting four goals and 24 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He then spent parts of two seasons with the Buffalo Sabres before joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> for parts of four seasons. Beaulieu last skated during the 2022-23 season when he made 52 appearances with the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The longtime defenceman announced his retirement from the NHL on Wednesday following 12 years in the league. Beaulieu,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-18446","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\/18446","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=18446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}