Two-Time Stanley Cup Champion Tyler Johnson Shocks Fans with Unexpected Retirement Announcement
After 13 years in the NHL, Tyler Johnson is hanging up his skates.
The center, who won two Stanley Cups with the Lightning, announced his retirement on social media Monday.
“As a short kid from a small town, I saw my chances of playing in the NHL as very slim,” Johnson wrote in an Instagram post. “But my family — my parents, Ken and Debbie, and my grandparents — believed in me when doubt clouded my mind. Their unwavering faith turned that dream into reality.”
An unheralded prospect, Johnson broke into the NHL with the Lightning in 2012 as an undrafted free agent from the WHL’s Spokane Chiefs, his hometown team.
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