{"id":458443,"date":"2023-09-07T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458443"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:18:54","slug":"michael-del-zotto-retires-from-hockey-after-14-years-as-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/michael-del-zotto-retires-from-hockey-after-14-years-as-a-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Del Zotto retires from hockey after 14 years as a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Del Zotto has announced that he is officially retiring from professional hockey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 736 games in the NHL, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelDelZotto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MichaelDelZotto<\/a>&#39;s hanging them up. \ud83d\udc4f <\/p>\n<p>We wish you the best of luck in retirement! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NgMSuTiKOQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NgMSuTiKOQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1699533395993255980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Del Zotto has 13 NHL seasons behind his back, notching 736 games in total, scoring 63 goals and adding 199 assists for 262 points.<\/p>\n<p>He has also featured in the playoff games, making 32 appearances, putting up 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old spent last season outside the NHL in Charlotte Checkers and San Diego Gulls, where he had 41 points in 65 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blood, sweat, tears, broken bones, triumph, heartbreak and sacrifice were worth every second,&#8221; he in an Instagram post. &#8220;So were the many amazing relationships I made along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Del Zotto moves on with the next chapter of his life, where he will spend more time with his family and have the opportunity to commit to real estate agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Del Zotto has announced that he is officially retiring from professional hockey. After 736 games in the NHL, @MichaelDelZotto&#39;s hanging them up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458446,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[21266],"acf":{"announce":"The 33-year-old veteran has called it a day on his professional career","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\/458443"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458445,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458443\/revisions\/458445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458443"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458443"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}