{"id":399262,"date":"2026-01-08T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:28:08","slug":"ovechkin-cheers-on-son-playing-during-mites-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399262\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin cheers on son playing during \u2018Mites on Ice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-ovechkin-8471214\" title=\"Alex Ovechkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a> got to watch another \u201cGreat 8\u201d tear up the ice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals captain cheered on his son, Sergei, while the 8-year-old skated in \u201cMites on Ice\u201d during an intermission of the team\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting his dad\u2019s No. 8 jersey, Sergei showed off his skills skating up and down his dad\u2019s home ice.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin gave the future star a thumbs up as he watched alongside teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-carlson-8474590\" title=\"John Carlson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> from the Capitals bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin got to watch another \u201cGreat 8\u201d tear up the ice on Wednesday. The Washington Capitals captain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-399262","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\/399262","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=399262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}