Jul 18, 2025, 11:46 AM ET<\/p>\n
Goaltender Jaroslav Halak<\/a> officially announced his retirement from the NHL after 17 seasons Friday, more than two years removed from his last game.<\/p>\n Halak, 40, last played a game on April 13, 2023, with the New York Rangers<\/a>. He then spent time with the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> early in the 2023-24 season on a professional tryout but was released before competing in a game.<\/p>\n “Last year I completed summer training … but when nothing came of it, I told myself it was pointless. After that I didn’t even try anymore,” Halak told Slovakia’s Dennik Sport, per a translation. “I’m officially ending my career. I would like to thank my family, friends, fans and especially my wife Petra, who has been by my side my entire career.”<\/p>\n A two-time William M. Jennings Trophy winner as the goalie on the team that allowed the fewest goals in a season, Halak posted a 295-189-69 record with 53 shutouts, a 2.50 goals-against average and .915 save percentage in 581 career games (555 starts). He has played with the Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, St. Louis Blues<\/a>, Washington Capitals<\/a>, New York Islanders<\/a>, Boston Bruins<\/a>, Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and Rangers.<\/p>\n “It’s been two years, and I’ve come to terms with not reaching 300 [wins],” Halak said. “Looking back on my career, it’s been a good one. It would have been nicer with 300 wins, but I’ll be happy with 295.”<\/p>\n Halak also played for his native Slovakia at the Olympics in 2010 and 2014 and guided Team Europe to the championship game at the World Cup of Hockey 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 18, 2025, 11:46 AM ET Goaltender Jaroslav Halak officially announced his retirement from the NHL after 17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-6285","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\/6285","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=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}