{"id":46570,"date":"2025-08-05T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46570\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:50:07","slug":"stars-former-star-retires-from-nhl-after-14-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46570\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars&#8217; former star retires from NHL after 14 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/stars-former-star-retires-nhl-after-14-seasons\/7005f88612aefab31fac811c?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stars&#039; former star retires from NHL after 14 seasons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Stars&#8217; former star retires from NHL after 14 seasons<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the Dallas Stars&#8217; best goaltenders in recent memory is putting his pads away for good.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year old goalie Anton Khudobin has retired, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/08\/minor-transactions-8-4-25.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to media in Kazakhstan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to media in Kazakhstan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Khudobin played 14 seasons in the NHL with a 114-92-33 record, a 2.52 GAA and a 91.6 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 2022-23 in the minors, then went to Russia but played sparingly there. In 2024-25, Khudobin didn&#8217;t play at all, and now he has made his retirement official.<\/p>\n<p>Khudobin&#8217;s best NHL play came from 2018-22 with the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>In those four seasons, he was 47-40-17 with a 91.7 save percentage and 2.54 GAA.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/oilers-connor-mcdavid-45-million-reason-contract-extension-negotiations\/4b1a1f91f4967c9768025b53\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Connor McDavid has $45 million reason to look forward to contract negotiations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Connor McDavid has $45 million reason to look forward to contract negotiations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khudobin put up a 93.0% save percentage in 2019-20 to lead the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent four seasons in Boston, two in Carolina, two in Minnesota, one in Anaheim and one in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was originally drafted in the seventh round of the 2004 draft by the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t debut in the NHL until the 2009-10 season, and in his first three NHL campaigns, he played a combined seven games.<\/p>\n<p>He finally played in 14 in 2012-13 for Boston, then 36 for the Hurricanes in 2013-14 to jumpstart his career.<\/p>\n<p>Khudobin was never given quite a full season&#8217;s workload, but he almost always acquitted himself well in the action he did get.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a couple years removed from the NHL, Khudobin has stepped away from the goal for good.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/penguins-legend-jaromir-jagr-hints-continuing-hockey-career-age-53\/8080db3aaa6aea8d7295cd14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaromir Jagr may continue hockey career at age 53;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jaromir Jagr may continue hockey career at age 53<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars&#8217; former star retires from NHL after 14 seasons originally appeared on The Sporting News One of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[32247,3333,49,48,6681,12428,757,22386,32483,2598,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-46570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anton-khudobin","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-connor-mcdavid","14":"tag-dallas-stars","15":"tag-four-seasons","16":"tag-jaromir-jagr","17":"tag-minnesota","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46570","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=46570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}