{"id":595346,"date":"2026-04-09T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:21:06","slug":"ilya-protas-makes-unbelievable-caps-debut-in-shutout-of-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595346\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Protas makes \u2018unbelievable\u2019 Caps debut in shutout of Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3T6HTX4IAJHBDCTMFFCBDYBOVY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A younger Ilya Protas would have hung up the phone on someone trying to tell him what would happen in the April of his 20th year.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YKJBREZN2FHIJHZCAXYDJNPRMY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Protas, who turns 20 in July, didn\u2019t just make his NHL debut for the Washington Capitals on Wednesday in Toronto. He did it while centering a line between his older brother, Aliaksei, and standout veteran winger Tom Wilson. And he did it after earning the call-up to the NHL in his first professional season, amid a campaign for the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League that made him the highest-scoring rookie in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A younger Ilya Protas would have hung up the phone on someone trying to tell him what would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,4791],"class_list":{"0":"post-595346","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","12":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595346","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=595346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}