{"id":348086,"date":"2025-12-14T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:40:08","slug":"bogdan-trineyev-becomes-first-player-other-than-sidney-crosby-to-wear-no-87-in-an-nhl-game-since-the-2022-23-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348086\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogdan Trineyev becomes first player other than Sidney Crosby to wear no. 87 in an NHL game since the 2022-23 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Bogdan Trineyev took the ice at Canada Life Centre, he became the 89th player from the 2020 NHL Draft and just the second Washington Capitals player from that draft year \u2014 Hendrix Lapierre is the other \u2014 to play in an NHL game.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/13\/bogdan-trineyev-nhl-debut-winnipeg-jets-alex-ovechkin-nickname\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBogdan Crosby\u201d<\/a> accomplished something even rarer with the jersey number he was assigned, which has mostly fallen out of circulation as one of the greatest players in NHL history inches closer to the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Trineyev became the first player other than Sidney Crosby to wear number 87 in an NHL game in two years, eight months, and 13 days. The last player to do so before Bogdan was Czech-born forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/player\/martin-kaut-8480822\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Kraut<\/a> on March 30, 2023, who completed a nine-game stint with the San Jose Sharks after a trade with the Colorado Avalanche on January 25, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Kraut was one of two players other than Crosby across the NHL to wear number 87 during the 2022-23 season, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kristian-reichel-8480443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">center Kristian Reichel<\/a>, who appeared in two games with the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby has been the only player in the NHL to wear the number 87 during 10 of his 21 seasons in the NHL (2024-25, 2023-24, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2015-16, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2011-12, and 2010-11). Only eight players other than Crosby have worn the number in an NHL game since the Penguins captain entered the league in 2025-26, and three of them have been Capitals players.<\/p>\n<p>NHL players who have worn #87 since 2005-06<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Trineyev (WSH)<br \/>\nMartin Kraut (SJS)<br \/>\nKristian Reichel (WPG)<br \/>\nLiam O\u2019Brien (WSH)<br \/>\nVadim Shipachyov (VGK)<br \/>\nDavid Musil (EDM)<br \/>\nDonald Brashear (NYR\/WSH\/PHI)<br \/>\nPierre Turgeon (COL)<\/p>\n<p>The last player to wear 87 in a Capitals jersey was Liam O\u2019Brien on November 10, 2017, when the Caps played the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s kinda poetic, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bogdan Trineyev took the ice at Canada Life Centre, he became the 89th player from the 2020&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-348086","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\/348086","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=348086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}