{"id":29549,"date":"2018-09-20T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=29549"},"modified":"2018-09-20T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:12:52","slug":"ondrej-pavelec-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/09\/20\/ondrej-pavelec-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets Goalie Ondrej Pavelec Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Rangers<\/a>\u00a0and Winnipeg Jets<\/a> goaltender Ondrej Pavelec<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0announced his retirement today. The news was made public through an article in a Czech\u00a0Republic newspaper. Pavelec was an unrestricted free agent as his contract with the Rangers expired on July 1st.<\/p>\n

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Former Thrashers, @NHLJets<\/a> and @NYRangers<\/a> goalie Ond\u0159ej Pavelec announces retirement from professional hockey at age 31.https:\/\/t.co\/upFM7R4jGQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ji\u0159\u00ed V\u00edtek (@JVitek94) September 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Czech Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec<\/a> Announces Retirement From Hockey<\/h1>\n

Over his extensive 11-year NHL career, the Czech goaltender has played primarily for the former Atlanta\u00a0Thrashers, who originally drafted him in the second round, 41st overall of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He then transferred to Winnipeg Jets<\/a> in the relocation. Last season, the Pavelec joined the\u00a0Rangers as a free agent to back up\u00a0superstar Henrik\u00a0Lundqvist<\/a><\/strong>. Although the Rangers had a poor season overall. Pavelec only played 19 games starting in 12 of them. He put up a .910 Save Percentage and a 3.05 goals-against-average. He put up a record of 4-9-1 with one shutout.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old’s career NHL stats include 398 career games played with 374 starts. He put up a .907 save percentage and 2.88 goals-against-average. Pavelec has a career record of 156-167-48 with 18 shutouts. In the AHL, he won the Calder Cup as the starting goalie for the 2007-08 Chicago Wolves.<\/p>\n

Pavelec has also had success at international level representing the Czech Republic at the Olympics, IIHF World Championships and the World Cup of Hockey, amongst other events. He won a gold medal at the 2010\u00a0World Championships\u00a0and a bronze medal at the 2011\u00a0tournament.<\/p>\n

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Main Photo:\u00a0PITTSBURGH, PA – DECEMBER 05: Ondrej Pavelec #31 of the New York Rangers makes a save on a shot by Evgeni Malkin #71 of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third period during the game at PPG PAINTS Arena on December 5, 2017, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin Berl\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former New York Rangers\u00a0and Winnipeg Jets goaltender Ondrej Pavelec\u00a0announced his retirement today. The news was made public through an article in a Czech\u00a0Republic newspaper. Pavelec was an unrestricted free agent as his contract with the Rangers expired on July 1st. Former Thrashers, @NHLJets and @NYRangers goalie Ond\u0159ej Pavelec announces retirement from professional hockey at age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":19980,"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":[14,34,33],"tags":[48,435,357],"class_list":["post-29549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","category-jets","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-ondrej-pavelec","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29549","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\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}