{"id":161503,"date":"2025-09-22T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161503\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:29:07","slug":"ovechkin-cheers-on-sons-goal-at-youth-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161503\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin cheers on son&#8217;s goal at youth hockey game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like father, like son in the Ovechkin family.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Sergei Ovechkin scored a slick goal during his youth hockey game at MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, VA, and had quite the cheering squad out to see the score.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-year-old had his dad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-ovechkin-8471214\" title=\"Alex Ovechkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>, clapping and screaming for him, as well as Washington Capitals teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/aliaksei-protas-8481656\" title=\"Aliaksei Protas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aliaksei Protas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ilya-protas-8484999\" title=\"Ilya Protas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Protas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a cute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nastyashubskaya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media video<\/a> posted by Ovechkin\u2019s wife, Nastya, Sergei finds some room on the left side of the goal and buries the puck. The video then shows Ovechkin and the Protas brothers cheering on the bench as Sergei celebrates with his team.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like father, like son in the Ovechkin family. On Sunday, Sergei Ovechkin scored a slick goal during his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-161503","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\/161503","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=161503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}