{"id":393641,"date":"2026-01-06T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:06:15","slug":"jack-johnson-retires-hired-by-canucks-as-a-professional-scout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393641\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Johnson retires, hired by Canucks as a professional scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Longtime NHL defenseman Jack Johnson has retired from playing hockey and has joined the Vancouver Canucks organization as a professional scout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Johnson, 38, played for 19 NHL seasons, including a two-year stint in Pittsburgh for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Penguins signed Jack Johnson to a five-year, $16.25 million contract during the 2018 offseason, eventually placing the veteran defenseman on waivers and buying out the remaining three years of his deal in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Johnson bounced around several NHL rosters post-buyout with stints in New York, Colorado, Chicago, and Columbus, where he spent a good chunk of his career before coming to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Over six years removed from his time in Pittsburgh, Johnson\u2019s retirement and new gig in Vancouver is a reunion of sorts with Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford, who drafted Johnson in Carolina in 2005 and signed him in Pittsburgh when he was the Penguins\u2019 general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Penguins are still paying a cap hit on Johnson\u2019s 2020 buyout, which saw the remaining three years of the term of the deal spread across six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The cap hit, which counts for $916,667, will go away after this current season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime NHL defenseman Jack Johnson has retired from playing hockey and has joined the Vancouver Canucks organization as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,37,192,5,6250,2141,4,1469,2171,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-393641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-canucks","tag-chicago","tag-colorado","tag-hockey","tag-jack-johnson","tag-jim-rutherford","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-the-penguins","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115848543181534803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393641","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=393641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}