{"id":236319,"date":"2025-10-24T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236319\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:39:11","slug":"ovechkin-meets-service-dog-named-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236319\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin meets service dog named after him\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ovi met Ovi.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-ovechkin-8471214\" title=\"Alex Ovechkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a> met an America\u2019s VetDogs puppy that was named after him in honor of the Washington Capitals captain becoming the NHL\u2019s all-time leading scorer last season.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted by the team on Instagram, Ovechkin brought a plush toy of himself for his new buddy. He also gifted the pup his Capitals jersey, which the dog \u201cOvi\u201d posed for pictures in all over the team\u2019s practice rink.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ovis even shared a nuzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ovi met Ovi. Last week, Alex Ovechkin met an America\u2019s VetDogs puppy that was named after him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-236319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236319","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=236319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}