{"id":444207,"date":"2023-07-25T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444207"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:42:33","slug":"boston-star-bergeron-is-hanging-up-his-skates","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-star-bergeron-is-hanging-up-his-skates\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston star Bergeron is hanging up his skates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after becoming 38 years old, Patrice announced his retirement as his franchise shared the news on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past 20 years, I have been able to live my dream daily. I have had the opportunity of playing in front of the best fans in the world wearing the Boston uniform and representing my country at the highest levels of international tournaments,&#8221; the star wrote to the fans. &#8220;I gave hockey everything that I have physically and emotionally, and hockey has given me back even more, allowing me to live that way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron, one of the best two-way forwards ever, announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Bergeron played all 19 seasons for the Bruins. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ma7kcnzwXW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ma7kcnzwXW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1683847867625009154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with a full heart and much gratitude that today I share that I am hanging up my skates and will not compete anymore in the NHL or elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patrice, who was Boston\u2019s captain in the last 3 years, triumphed with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive and 6<sup>th<\/sup> overall Selke Trophy this past campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after becoming 38 years old, Patrice announced his retirement as his franchise shared the news on social media. &#8220;In the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":444208,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17259,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17914,18880,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Bruins\u2019 star announces retirement.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444207"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444207"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}