{"id":7004,"date":"2025-07-19T02:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7004\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:37:07","slug":"ex-islanders-rangers-goalie-jaroslav-halak-retires-after-17-nhl-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Islanders, Rangers goalie Jaroslav Halak retires after 17 NHL seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaroslav Halak is calling it a career after 17 years as an NHL goalie, including four seasons with the Islanders and one with the Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old last played in 2022-\u201923 with the Rangers. The Hurricanes signed him to a professional tryout ahead of the 2023-\u201924 season, but Halak was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year I completed summer training\u2026but when nothing came of it, I told myself it was pointless. After that I didn\u2019t even try anymore,\u201d Halak told Slovakia\u2019s Dennik Sport, per a translation. \u201cI\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.36715621;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36577613\" width=\"807\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/41-makes-stop-third-period-22208900.jpg\" alt=\"New York Islanders goaltender Jaroslav Halak making a save.\" class=\"wp-image-36577613\"  \/>Goalie Jaroslav Halak with the Islanders on March 22, 2018. Robert Sabo<\/p>\n<p>Halak started 539 games in his career, and won the William M. Jennings Trophy twice, which is awarded to the goalie on the team that allowed the fewest goals in a season. <\/p>\n<p>He won it first with the Blues in 2011-\u201912 and again with the Bruins in 2019-\u201920.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bratislava, Slovakia native began his NHL career with four seasons on the Canadiens before a four-year stint in St. Louis, a 12-game cup of coffee with the Capitals, a four-season stretch with the Islanders and a three-year run with the Bruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also started 14 games with the Canucks in 2021-\u201922 before landing on the Rangers in 2022-\u201923.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43820225;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36577606\" width=\"849\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/protects-goal-second-period-new-9587044.jpg\" alt=\"New York Rangers goalie Jaroslav Halak (41) in net.\" class=\"wp-image-36577606\"  \/>Goalie Jaroslav Halak with the Rangers on April 13, 2023. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He has a career save percentage of .915 and an overall goals against average of 2.81, and finished just shy of the 300 career win mark with 295.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been two years, and I\u2019ve come to terms with not reaching 300 [wins],\u201d Halak said. \u201cLooking back on my career, it\u2019s been a good one. It would have been nicer with 300 wins, but I\u2019ll be happy with 295.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders, with whom Halak made his only All-Star appearance in 2014-\u201915, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYIslanders\/status\/1946204165769740728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">congratulated the goalie <\/a>on his career on X, writing, \u201cWishing Jaroslav Halak all the best in retirement!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaroslav Halak is calling it a career after 17 years as an NHL goalie, including four seasons with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,7681,743,750,751,448,82,759],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jaroslav-halak","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","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=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}