{"id":12321,"date":"2025-06-24T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/matt-martins-retirement-only-4-players-without-visors-in-the-nhl\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:15:51","slug":"matt-martins-retirement-only-4-players-without-visors-in-the-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/matt-martins-retirement-only-4-players-without-visors-in-the-nhl\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Martin&#8217;s Retirement: Only 4 Players Without Visors in the NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matt Martin Hangs Up His Skates: End of an Era in the NHL<\/h2>\n\n\nVeteran player Matt Martin announced his retirement this Tuesday, marking the end of a 16-season career in the NHL. He dedicated most of his career, 14 seasons, to the New York Islanders, leaving an indelible mark on the league.\n\nMartin&#8217;s departure reduces the number of players competing without a visor to a select group. This change is significant, as Martin was one of the few who maintained this tradition on the ice.\n\nWith his move to the Islanders&#8217; management as special assistant to general manager Mathieu Darche, professional hockey loses another iconic player.\n\nNow, only Ryan O&#8217;Reilly, Jamie Benn, Zach Bogosian, and Ryan Reaves continue to play without the protection of a visor.\n\nIn 2013, the NHL and the Players&#8217; Association agreed to make the use of visors mandatory for new players, following a model similar to the implementation of helmets decades ago.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If it were mandatory, I would have used it. I took it off because of the role I play, and at that time, everyone playing that role didn&#8217;t use it. I got used to that, so I never changed it.<\/p><cite>Matt Martin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMartin played his last game, out of a total of 1,075 regular season and playoff games, on April 17. Craig MacTavish, who played until 1997, was the last player without a helmet in the NHL. Martin considers Benn and O&#8217;Reilly as &#8220;the favorites&#8221; to be the last without a visor.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Martin Hangs Up His Skates: End of an Era in the NHL Veteran player Matt Martin announced his retirement this Tuesday, marking the end of a 16-season career in the NHL. He dedicated most of his career, 14 seasons, to the New York Islanders, leaving an indelible mark on the league. Martin&#8217;s departure reduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4683,454,168,4684],"class_list":{"0":"post-12321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-matt-martin","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-retirement","11":"tag-viewer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}