{"id":392745,"date":"2026-01-06T01:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:11:29","slug":"jack-johnson-retires-joins-canucks-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392745\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Johnson Retires, Joins Canucks Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a team announcement<\/a>, the Vancouver Canucks have hired former defenseman Jack Johnson<\/a> as a professional scout. The update indirectly confirms that Johnson\u2019s 19-year career has come to an end.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s professional career began in 2005 when he was selected with the third overall pick of the 2005 NHL Draft by the Carolina Hurricanes, behind Sidney Crosby<\/a> and Bobby Ryan<\/a>. Just over a year after being drafted, the Hurricanes traded Johnson and Oleg Tverdovsky<\/a> to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Tim Gleason<\/a> and \u00c9ric B\u00e9langer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Kings at the end of the 2006-07 season, Johnson played two years at the University of Michigan in the NCAA, where he scored 26 goals and amassed 71 points in 74 games.<\/p>\n

Unlike fellow prospect\u00a0Drew Doughty<\/a>, Johnson took longer to adapt to the NHL\u2019s pace. Throughout his first three years, despite playing in a top-four role, Johnson managed only nine goals and 22 points in 120 games with a -42 rating. Still, once he was moved to a top-pairing role for the 2009-10 season, Johnson\u2019s offense took off, scoring 13 goals and 78 points in his next 162 contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Los Angeles quickly rewarded Johnson for his breakout, signing the young blue liner to a seven-year, $30.5MM extension in early January of 2010. Unfortunately, his tenure with the Kings wouldn\u2019t last much longer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Looking to add a top-six center, the Kings traded Johnson, along with a 2013 first-round pick, to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Jeff Carter<\/a>. Carter played a crucial role in the Kings\u2019 first Stanley Cup championship later that year, while Johnson experienced the best years of his career with Columbus.<\/p>\n

Playing out the rest of his extension with the Blue Jackets, Johnson finished his first stint with the Blue Jackets, scoring 36 goals and 154 points in 445 games. Additionally, he could always be counted upon on the defensive side of the puck, never falling below a 90.0% on-ice SV% at even strength throughout his tenure in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Entering unrestricted free agency for the first time in his career, Johnson signed a five-year, $16.25MM contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins ahead of the 2018-19 season. Despite averaging nearly three hits a game for Pittsburgh, his offense didn\u2019t hold up to the contract value. Johnson finished his tenure with the Penguins with four goals and 24 points in 149 games, and had the final three years of his contract bought out after the 2019-20 campaign.<\/p>\n

Again a free agent, Johnson signed with the New York Rangers on a one-year, $1.15MM contract. Unfortunately, he was limited to 13 games in the year due to a core muscle repair surgery.<\/p>\n

Firmly in the twilight years of his career, Johnson was open to a lower salary and a lower role in an attempt to win the first Stanley Cup of his career. He found it immediately.<\/p>\n

Signing a one-year, league-minimum contract with the Colorado Avalanche for the 2021-22 campaign, Johnson played in 13 games for the Avalanche during the 2022 postseason, helping the team win its first Stanley Cup championship in 21 years.<\/p>\n

Salary cap limitations prevented the Avalanche from re-signing Johnson the following year, but they subsequently acquired him again at the trade deadline from the Chicago Blackhawks. He experienced a brief offensive resurgence with Colorado during the 2023-24 season, before ultimately finishing his career with Columbus last season. He briefly attempted to make the Minnesota Wild\u2019s roster last September, though he didn\u2019t make the roster.<\/p>\n

Johnson finishes his career with 77 goals and 342 points in 1,228 games with a -127 rating across 19 seasons. The length of his career is remarkable, given his willingness to sacrifice his body, averaging 1.49 blocked shots and 1.57 hits per game.<\/p>\n

We at PHR congratulate Johnson on an impressive career and wish him the best of luck in his new role with the Canucks.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the Vancouver Canucks have hired former defenseman Jack Johnson as a professional scout.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,96,144,230,5,6250,145,35,30,4,100,2547,405,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-392745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-canucks","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-hockey","tag-jack-johnson","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-retirement","tag-transactions","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115845495892632798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}