{"id":892438,"date":"2026-09-12T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892438\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:34:10","slug":"nhl-goaltender-connor-ingram-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892438\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL goaltender Connor Ingram announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player=\"439d6194-0240-47f0-aead-9a74bf971824\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/connor-ingram\/439d6194-0240-47f0-aead-9a74bf971824\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Ingram<\/a> is closing the book on his professional hockey career.<\/p>\n<p>The goaltender took to Instagram on Friday night to announce his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t be sad it\u2019s over, be happy it happened. Thanks hockey, I owe ya,&#8221; wrote Ingram in a post.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram, from Saskatoon, Sask., appeared in 134 NHL career games for Nashville, Arizona, Utah, and Edmonton, posting a 55-54-18 record, along with a 3.01 goals-against average and .901 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted 88th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2016 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old spent the 2025-26 season with the Oilers and their AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors, after being traded from the Mammoth last October.<\/p>\n<p>In 32 regular-season games for the Oilers, Ingram recorded a 2.60 goals-against average and an .899 save percentage. He also appeared in five playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a three-year, $5.85 million contract, Ingram became an unrestricted free agent during the off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Ingram is closing the book on his professional hockey career. The goaltender took to Instagram on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-892438","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\/892438","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=892438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}