After a career that has taken him across seven NHL teams, Jaroslav Halak has decided to hang up the pads for good. <\/p>\n
The goaltender announced Friday that he’s retiring from professional hockey after a 17-year career. <\/p>\n
The 40-year-old Slovakian last played in 2022-23 for the New York Rangers, where he appeared in 25 games with a .903 save percentage and a 2.72 goals-against average. <\/p>\n
Across his 585 NHL games, Halak achieved a career .915 save percentage and 2.50 goals-against average while recording 53 shutouts. He won the William M. Jennings Trophy in both 2011-12 and 2019-20 as the goaltender who allowed the fewest goals in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Halak was selected in the ninth round, 271st overall, by the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> at the 2003 NHL Draft. He played in Montreal for four seasons before moving onto the St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and Rangers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a career that has taken him across seven NHL teams, Jaroslav Halak has decided to hang up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-5812","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\/5812","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=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}