{"id":14834,"date":"2003-05-28T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/patrick-roy-to-retire\/"},"modified":"2003-05-28T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-28T12:42:00","slug":"patrick-roy-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/patrick-roy-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Roy To Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/onthefly\/news\/144335.html\" title=\"Patrick Roy stats\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Colorado Avalanche\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/coloradoavalanche.gif\" \/><\/a>I was shocked to hear the news that legendary goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/lineups\/player\/8451033.html\" title=\"Patrick Roy stats\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Roy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/onthefly\/news\/roy052803.html\" title=\"Patrick Roy to retire\" target=\"_blank\">is going to announce his retirement today<\/a> after 18 years in the league.  Although he&rsquo;s 37 years old, he&rsquo;s still one of the best goalies in the game, and his legacy will certainly never be forgotten:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roy is a four-time Stanley Cup champion &ndash; two each with Colorado and Montreal &ndash; and is the only three-time winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the playoff MVP. He is the league&rsquo;s career leader in victories with 551 and games played with 1,029, and he&rsquo;s also tops in playoff victories, games played and shutouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess there&rsquo;s something to be said for leaving at the top of your game, but I for one will miss his imposing presence on the ice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200352089?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked to hear the news that legendary goalie Patrick Roy is going to announce his retirement today after 18 years in the league. Although he&rsquo;s 37 years old, he&rsquo;s still one of the best goalies in the game, and his legacy will certainly never be forgotten: Roy is a four-time Stanley Cup champion &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/patrick-roy-to-retire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patrick Roy To Retire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}