{"id":119023,"date":"2021-09-27T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=119023"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:11:23","slug":"new-york-rangers-to-retire-henrik-lundqvist-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/09\/27\/new-york-rangers-to-retire-henrik-lundqvist-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers to Retire Henrik Lundqvist\u2019s Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> will be immortalizing one of their greatest players of all time, as the team will retire the number of goaltender Henrik Lundqvist on January 28th, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Swede announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/08\/20\/henrik-lundqvist-retires-nhl\/\" target=\"_self\">retirement from the NHL<\/a> in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1442520141233754115<\/p>\n<h2>Henrik Lundqvist Number 30 to be Retired by Rangers<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s little surprise the New York Rangers are giving Henrik Lundqvist one of their top honours. He is the franchise\u2019s all-time leader in both wins and shutouts by a goaltender. Furthermore, he was the backstop during a period where the Rangers were on the brink of contention. In his 15 years as New York\u2019s goalie, the team reached the playoffs 12 times. That includes a trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 2014, where they ultimately fell to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/kings\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in five games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Henrik finished his NHL career with 887 games played, a career of 2.43 goals against average and a .919 save percentage. He also participated in 130 playoff games where he sported 2.30 goals against and a .921 save percentage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My mom just told me tickets for the Henrik Lundqvist jersey retirement game just jumped from $200 to $1,000 in the matter of four minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NYR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mollie Walker (@MollieeWalkerr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MollieeWalkerr\/status\/1442525266526474245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Joining some of MSG\u2019s Best<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lundqvist will be the ninth player to have his number retired by the Rangers. It will be the first jersey retired by the club since December of 2018 when they honoured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hadfivi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Hadfield<\/a>. He will be the second goalie in the team\u2019s 95-year history to see his jersey in the rafters of Madison Square Garden, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/richtmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Richter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite never winning a Stanley Cup, Lundqvist is among the best to ever don the blue shirt. He spent over a decade as one of the NHL\u2019s top puck-stoppers in an era that overlapped with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brodema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Brodeur<\/a>. As the consistent starting goalie in one of hockey\u2019s largest markets and was never fazed by the spotlight. He was also instrumental in the Rangers\u2019 closest chance at Stanley Cup glory since their 1994 championship win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to his on-ice work, Lundqvist also has his own charitable foundation that helps underserved youth. Despite being born and raised in Sweden, Henrik Lundqvist made New York his second home in every sense of the word. It should be no surprise his jersey will never be worn by another New York Ranger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"zxu6TOuPS6J09OTQoyuLmw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1263166724\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'zxu6TOuPS6J09OTQoyuLmw',sig:'JVCbtIGwjcoPM_ImOyW4_RAiCo5Zuh_y5J99P3hq-8A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1263166724',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers will be immortalizing one of their greatest players of all time, as the team will retire the number of goaltender Henrik Lundqvist on January 28th, 2022.\u00a0The Swede announced his retirement from the NHL in August. https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1442520141233754115 Henrik Lundqvist Number 30 to be Retired by Rangers It\u2019s little surprise the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3197,"featured_media":119026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,14,34,4548],"tags":[372,6259],"class_list":["post-119023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-henrik-lundqvist","tag-new-york-rangers-news"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}