{"id":47766,"date":"2025-07-08T04:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47766\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T04:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:26:10","slug":"two-time-stanley-cup-champion-tyler-johnson-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47766\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time Stanley Cup champion Tyler Johnson announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 13 years in the NHL, Tyler Johnson is hanging up his skates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The center, who won two Stanley Cups with the Lightning, announced his retirement on social media Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a short kid from a small town, I saw my chances of playing in the NHL as very slim,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DL0ifsoRw3E\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Johnson wrote in an Instagram post<\/a>. \u201cBut my family \u2014 my parents, Ken and Debbie, and my grandparents \u2014 believed in me when doubt clouded my mind. Their unwavering faith turned that dream into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An unheralded prospect, Johnson broke into the NHL with the Lightning in 2012 as an undrafted free agent from the WHL\u2019s Spokane Chiefs, his hometown team.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36466391\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tampa-bay-lightnings-tyler-johnson-107777105.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Johnson of the Tampa Bay Lightning playing hockey.\" class=\"wp-image-36466391\"  \/>Tyler Johnson announced his retirement from the NHL Monday. AP<\/p>\n<p>He stayed with Tampa Bay until 2021, and was a staple of the perennially-contending Lightning teams of the late 2010s and early 2020s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He hoisted the cup with the team in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Johnson said he\u2019ll \u201cnever forget\u201d the call he received from then-Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman back in 2012, which he said \u201cchanged his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d never set foot in Florida and knew nothing about Tampa, but a gut feeling said it was my path. That instinct led me home,\u201d Johnson wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.74023438;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36466398\" width=\"437\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tampa-bay-lightnings-tyler-johnson-107777104.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Johnson of the Tampa Bay Lightning raises the Stanley Cup.\" class=\"wp-image-36466398\"  \/>Tyler Johnson hoists the Stanley Cup after the Lightning won it in 2020. AP<\/p>\n<p>After leaving Tampa Bay, Johnson went on to play three seasons with the Blackhawks and one with the Bruins, although he only played nine games with Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson tallied a total of 193 goals and 240 assists in the 747 NHL games he played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His most productive season came with the Lightning in 2014-15, when he posted 29 goals and 43 assists and was named an All-Star, but he also eclipsed the 50-point mark in 2013-14 and in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, after a lifetime devoted to hockey, I\u2019m ready for what\u2019s next. I\u2019m thrilled to focus on starting a family and exploring new paths,\u201d Johnson wrote. \u201cThis moment is bittersweet, but I leave the game with no regrets \u2013 only gratitude for the rinks, the teammates, the fans, and a sport that will always ignite my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 13 years in the NHL, Tyler Johnson is hanging up his skates.\u00a0 The center, who won two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,3106,36758,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-47766","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-tampa-bay-lightning","11":"tag-tyler-johnson","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815722196863192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766","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=47766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}