{"id":274772,"date":"2025-11-10T05:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:31:18","slug":"kopitar-gets-jersey-from-crosby-after-last-regular-season-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274772\/","title":{"rendered":"Kopitar gets jersey from Crosby after last regular season matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kopitar, who announced in September that he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/los-angeles-kings-anze-kopitar-to-retire-after-2025-26-nhl-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">retire at the end of the season<\/a>, scored in the win.<\/p>\n<p>The two players were drafted together in 2005, Crosby as the No. 1 overall pick for the Penguins and Kopitar going 11th overall to the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Kopitar has played all 20 seasons of his career in Los Angeles. He won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and then again in 2014 and has served as the Kings captain since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby and Kopitar are both featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/faceoff-inside-the-nhl-amazon-prime-video-season-2-episode-3-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Episode 3<\/a> of the latest season of the \u201cFACEOFF: Inside the NHL\u201d docuseries, which highlights both players\u2019 push towards one last Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kopitar, who announced in September that he will retire at the end of the season, scored in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274772","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\/274772","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=274772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}