{"id":788170,"date":"2026-07-27T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:14:08","slug":"michael-hutchinson-announces-retirement-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788170\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hutchinson Announces Retirement \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to an announcement<\/a> from the Winnipeg Jets,\u00a0goaltender\u00a0Michael Hutchinson<\/a> has hung up his skates. Hutchinson spent 11 years in the NHL with the Jets, Florida Panthers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n

Hutchinson, 36, was originally drafted by the Boston Bruins with the 77th overall pick of the 2008 NHL Draft. Hutchinson spent a few years with the Bruins organization before signing as an unrestricted free agent with the Jets in 2013.<\/p>\n

At the time, Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> had not yet captured the crease in Winnipeg. Hutchinson played in a backup role behind Ond\u0159ej Pavelec<\/a> before finally working in the same capacity behind Hellebuyck a few years later. In his five years with the franchise, Hutchinson managed a 43-39-11 record in 102 games with a .910 SV% and 2.65 GAA.<\/p>\n

Then came the nomadic period of Hutchinson\u2019s career. In the next five seasons, Hutchinson played for five different clubs, though he did enjoy a relatively extended stay in the Maple Leafs organization. By now, Hutchinson had become a third-string netminder at best, managing a 14-23-7 record in 52 games with a .888 SV% and 3.52 GAA.<\/p>\n

After his time in the Red Wings organization, Hutchinson spent one additional season overseas with the Finnish Liiga\u2019s SaiPa, but he hasn\u2019t played professionally since the 2024-25 campaign. All in all, Hutchinson finishes with a career record of 57-62-18 in 154 games with a .902 SV% and 2.94 GAA.<\/p>\n

We at PHR congratulate Hutchinson on a lengthy career and wish him the best in his next chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to an announcement from the Winnipeg Jets,\u00a0goaltender\u00a0Michael Hutchinson has hung up his skates. Hutchinson spent 11 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1223,392,1786,4820,275592,385,1666,99,1788,6182,4827],"class_list":["post-788170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-florida-panthers","tag-michael-hutchinson","tag-nhl","tag-retirement","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-transactions","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}