{"id":62473,"date":"2025-08-11T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62473\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:23:07","slug":"wild-sign-veteran-defenceman-jack-johnson-to-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62473\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild sign veteran defenceman Jack Johnson to professional tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson, of Indianapolis, played with the Columbus Blue Jackets last season, appearing in 41 games and collecting six assists.<\/p>\n<p>If he makes the Wild, they will be his seventh NHL team after previous stints with the Los Angeles Kings (2006-12), Blue Jackets (2012-18, 2024-25), Pittsburgh Penguins (2018-20), New York Rangers (2020-21), Colorado Avalanche (2021-23, 2023-24) and Chicago Blackhawks (2023).<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,228 career games, Johnson owns 342 points (77 goals, 265 assists).<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-one, 227-pound\u00a0blue liner was originally selected third overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2005 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson, of Indianapolis, played with the Columbus Blue Jackets last season, appearing in 41 games and collecting six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-62473","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\/62473","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=62473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}