{"id":137990,"date":"2025-08-11T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:52:11","slug":"minnesota-wild-signs-defenseman-jack-johnson-to-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137990\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Signs Defenseman Jack Johnson to Professional Tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAINT PAUL, Minn.<\/strong> \u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman <strong>Jack Johnson<\/strong> to a professional tryout (PTO).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 38 (1\/13\/1987), skated in 41 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season, recording six assists. For his career, the 6-foot-1, 227-pound native of Indianapolis, Ind., has played in 1,228 games and posted 342 points (77-265=342), 639 penalty minutes (PIM) and 1,839 blocked shots across 19 NHL seasons (2006-2025) with the Los Angeles Kings (2006-12), Columbus (2012-18, 2024-25), Pittsburgh Penguins (2018-20), New York Rangers (2020-21), Colorado Avalanche (2021-23, 2023-24) and Chicago Blackhawks (2023). He has also played in 57 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, owning 21 points (5-16=21), 30 PIM and 85 blocked shots in postseason action and won the Stanley Cup with Colorado in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his NHL career, Johnson played two seasons (2005-06) at the University of Michigan, totaling 71 points (26-45=71). He has also represented the United States at multiple international competitions, including the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver where Team USA collected a silver medal. He was originally selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round (No. 3 overall) of the 2005 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Flex, 11-Game, half and full season memberships are available for purchase. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/byhhxerab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001rt1yPEwl6vTtR0rT3_pbGknb2s9p0PeNZf4_l4_GiNWkZ27BPk0Fx-Chk7plkos_R3-MPNINAea5G7dx6gpkxEZWOB53YZXSDaXp5WYbj33ttE0fk0JpFvbgUIL0KvouHebJvbzr9SRRs_wJfbKwYZYVoNNnvdAvMvlC7bijQKg21Peh20Vl8ISOxFHj4-5-XlusuQP4zWuOLlfAbuKYQDHFJ2gOCtAeKZbZBXGdvuv0UnP15zoHMOlQC6xadVZ90foyshvcKy6TijKklisoNffxcxIg0-_Np7ANnX_1QkYUMsCatJeSmVCEtpFq4zYq&amp;c=qUH1KXmCRZp2vfjqTO7yg8wWV16aL0-QqmKtSYsoUl_axCcziPbUxA==&amp;ch=i2jsrsHWKs-2O9lVvyYSNXQxrj0yQ-_7T5B9Aul9BeVVCIhgNUlKUA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tickets.wild.com<\/a> or contact a Wild Ticket Sales Representative by calling or texting (651) 222-WILD (9453) for more information. 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Pricing and on-sale dates for Minnesota Wild 2025-26 preseason and regular-season single-game tickets will be announced later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwildPR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mnwildPR<\/a> on X and visit <a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=0016SK80b27OTIG4xhw8R63eV9lpBrQxV996Qjk0d4g6qlvHkbTx6vT1qsBzZNaOxyDOZDZjTZ1AX30QLJxiGM5b2ZJm4n2Ijre6I-Yi-88oSFVd8ZAnvL4fhGq-MBjCcb7IJPVW517vyCb7eiRGnp8Lg==&amp;c=ztE_cuBo4xmFWg8zzt5ziPP_MCGsKfuCQiOsLcFNxdKTLM74SgeOZQ==&amp;ch=gn-CLqm0DRaKeaNsR02U4neX6vOQYLB4zSQw3cHgnjyFuPXPQTKzIw==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.wild.com\/pressbox<\/a> and for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, player interviews and daily statistics.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAINT PAUL, Minn. \u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115012353721067383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}