{"id":84068,"date":"2020-08-26T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=84068"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:33:18","slug":"edmonton-oilers-mike-green-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/26\/edmonton-oilers-mike-green-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Mike Green Retiring from NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 NHL seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greenmi03.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mike Green<\/strong><\/a> is retiring from the NHL, according to The Athletic&#8217;s Tarik El-Bashir. Last month Green, 34, opted out of the NHL&#8217;s Return to Play last month for health reasons. Green is now stepping away from playing hockey altogether.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers defenceman Mike Green announces his retirement on after 15 seasons in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHL<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tarik_ElBashir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tarik_ElBashir<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P1NOaPj5wU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/P1NOaPj5wU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PcipR50poN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PcipR50poN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1298607031293751296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Mike Green Retiring from NHL<\/h2>\n<p>Green finishes his 15-year career with 880 games played 150 goals, and 501 points. Drafted 29th overall in the 2004 draft, Green began his career playing 10 seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. In 2009\u201310, Green recorded a career-high 19 goals and 76 points to lead all NHL defenceman. Green scored in seven consecutive games that season too, which tied Mike O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2015\u201316 season, Green signed a three-year, $18-million contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, leaving the Caps as an unrestricted free agent. He spent five seasons with Detroit, scoring 37 goals and adding 104 assists. Detroit traded Green to the Oilers at this year&#8217;s deadline for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/athanan01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Andreas Athanasiou<\/strong><\/a>. Green played just two games with the Oilers before the NHL&#8217;s postponement due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Green received All-Star game honours twice (2011 and 2018) and was on the NHL&#8217;s First All-Star team in both 2009 and 2010. In 2008, Green won a silver medal with Team Canada at the Ice Hockey World Championships.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Before retiring, Green was set to become an unrestricted free agent again. The Oilers likely acquired Green as a rental defenceman, but Edmonton still could&#8217;ve used his services if Green elected to re-sign later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton is quite thin on defence, an issue that has plagued them in recent years and most recently in their four-game qualifying round loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bearet01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Ethan Bear<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bennima01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Matt Benning<\/strong> <\/a>are both restricted free agents this offseason, so general manager <strong>Ken Holland<\/strong> should have a busy time ahead re-tooling his blue-line.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"VXRfPhqJSFVFIsBht75O6Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1208843321\" 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:'VXRfPhqJSFVFIsBht75O6Q',sig:'1Ftfxe1ZRtdKGahM1Mo5TwvehxiWShctttvZuqSMuA8=',w:'594px',h:'448px',items:'1208843321',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>After 15 NHL seasons, Edmonton Oilers defenceman Mike Green is retiring from the NHL, according to The Athletic&#8217;s Tarik El-Bashir. Last month Green, 34, opted out of the NHL&#8217;s Return to Play last month for health reasons. Green is now stepping away from playing hockey altogether. Edmonton Oilers defenceman Mike Green announces his retirement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2619,"featured_media":84070,"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":[34,4,23,4547,4548,15],"tags":[95,138,755,75],"class_list":["post-84068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-redwings","category-oilers","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-capitals","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-mike-green","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Nik Kowalski, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068","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\/2619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}