{"id":29336,"date":"2018-07-01T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=29336"},"modified":"2018-07-01T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:38:01","slug":"chad-johnson-signs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/01\/chad-johnson-signs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Sign Chad Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> have signed free agent goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsch02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chad Johnson<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year deal worth $1.75 million. He spent last season with the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stlblues<\/a> sign goaltender Chad Johnson to a 1 yr deal. $1.75<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andystrickland\/status\/1013460332050870272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Chad Johnson Signs With the St. Louis Blues<\/h1>\n<p>Over his eight-year\u00a0NHL career, Johnson has played for the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New York Rangers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_self\">Phoenix Coyotes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. Johnson is 78-61-15 with a career 2.65 goals against average and .910 save percentage in 173 career games. He also has seven career shutouts. He was originally\u00a0drafted in the fifth round, 125th overall in the 2006\u00a0NHL Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. His best year was during the 2013-14 season with the Boston Bruins. That year, he went 17-4-3 with a 2.10 goals against average and .925 save percentage. He also recorded two shutouts that year.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has only appeared in one career Stanley Cup Playoff game, coming in as relief of\u00a0 <strong>Brian Elliott<\/strong> during the Flames 2017 playoff loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This season he went 10-16-3 with a 3.55 goals against average and a .891 save percentage with the Buffalo Sabres. He also failed to record a shutout this season. Johnson signed a one-year, $2.5 million dollar contract last July with the Sabres.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>Johnson,\u00a032, will look to bounce back next year with the St. Louis Blues after a terrible season this year with the Sabres. Johnson will be the back up for the Blues next season backing up <strong>Jake Allen<\/strong>. He will bring his veteran experience as well to the Blues. It will be interesting to see if Johnson can bounce back next season with his new team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"X7_5gMDbQOJGgAyplWzjGw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/940452632\" 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:'X7_5gMDbQOJGgAyplWzjGw',sig:'qpV8_fVyYkTn2iCQjY_UvpgUtMGR-l3ZJf56yeLO--M=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'940452632',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NASHVILLE, TN &#8211; MARCH 31: Buffalo Sabres goalie Chad Johnson (31) is shown during the NHL game between the Nashville Predators and Buffalo Sabres, held on March 31, 2018, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Danny Murphy\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have signed free agent goaltender Chad Johnson to a one-year deal worth $1.75 million. He spent last season with the Buffalo Sabres. #stlblues sign goaltender Chad Johnson to a 1 yr deal. $1.75 &mdash; Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) July 1, 2018 Chad Johnson Signs With the St. Louis Blues Over his eight-year\u00a0NHL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":29347,"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":[34,3,32],"tags":[182,1911,37,38,39],"class_list":["post-29336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sabres","category-blues","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-chad-johnson","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-st-louis-blues"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}