{"id":265978,"date":"2025-11-06T06:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:54:14","slug":"ovechkin-scores-his-900th-nhl-goal-then-the-goalie-wants-to-steal-the-puck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265978\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin scores his 900th NHL goal &#8211; then the goalie wants to steal the puck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"m-image-and-caption__image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11200395-2dab-4c2f-9c39-9e09d2234991.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"The only player in history to score 900 goals in the NHL: Alexander Ovechkin.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      The only player in history to score 900 goals in the NHL: Alexander Ovechkin.<\/p>\n<p>        dpa\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">Alexander Ovechkin has been the NHL&#8217;s record scorer since last season. Now the Russian has become the first professional ice hockey player to reach a very special milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">Ice hockey star Alexander Ovechkin has become the first player in history to score 900 goals in the NHL. In the Washington Capitals&#8217; 6:1 win against the St. Louis Blues, the Russian scored 2:0. He has been the most successful forward in NHL history since last season, when he overtook Wayne Gretzky, who scored 894 goals in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">&#8220;That&#8217;s a huge number, no one has ever done that in NHL history, and to be the first is a special moment,&#8221; Ovechkin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to have done it at home, in front of our fans. My family was able to be here. It&#8217;s pretty cool.&#8221; It was Owetschkin&#8217;s third goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">Opposing goalie Jordan Binnington also provided a funny anecdote. He tried to hide the puck that Owetschkin used to score his 900th goal in the NHL in his pants &#8211; presumably to take it home as a souvenir. But one of the linesmen caught him doing so and asked Binnington to hand over the puck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only player in history to score 900 goals in the NHL: Alexander Ovechkin. dpa Alexander Ovechkin has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-265978","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\/265978","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=265978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}