{"id":109837,"date":"2025-09-01T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109837\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:55:12","slug":"alex-ovechkin-reportedly-to-fly-back-to-washington-dc-on-september-5-ahead-of-21st-nhl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109837\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin reportedly to fly back to Washington DC on September 5 ahead of 21st NHL season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin will reportedly return to North America and end his summer in Russia this week.<\/p>\n

Sunday, Match TV reported that Ovechkin will fly back to Washington on September 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is Ovechkin flying to America on September 5? Because he wants to start preparing for the NHL season early,\u201d an unnamed source told the outlet<\/a>, as translated by Google Translate.<\/p>\n

Previously, Ovechkin was reported to be leaving in \u201cearly September.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ovechkin\u2019s last major outing in Russia was Pavel Datsyuk\u2019s farewell \u201cMagic Game,\u201d where the Capitals\u2019 captain record a hat trick and tallied five points<\/a>. Former Capitals Sergei Fedorov, Ilya Kovalchuk, and Alex Semin also suited up in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

While the start of Capitals\u2019 training camp is still weeks away, Caps players such as Dylan Strome, John Carlson, Matt Roy, and Logan Thompson have already returned to the area for informal skates at MedStar Capitals Iceplex. The team\u2019s first preseason game is scheduled for September 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin, who will turn 40 on September 17, has one year remaining on his contract with the Capitals, though his plans beyond this season are not yet known. Ovi sits three goals away from 900 in his career.<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 NHL season begins on October 7 and will be the 21st of Ovechkin\u2019s career. The Capitals\u2019 first game is October 8 at home against the Boston Bruins<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB Alex Ovechkin will reportedly return to North America and end his summer in Russia this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-109837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}