{"id":153588,"date":"2025-09-18T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153588\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:48:09","slug":"kings-captain-anze-kopitar-announces-2025-26-season-will-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153588\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings captain Anze Kopitar announces 2025-26 season will be his last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/los-angeles-kings\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-kings\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> captain announced on Thursday that his 20th season will be his last in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Kopitar, 38, has spent his entire career with the Kings and in his prime was one of the top power forwards in the game. He enters his final season as the Kings\u2019 all-time leader in games played (1,454) and assists (838), and second in points (1,278).<\/p>\n<p>Kopitar has won the Selke Trophy two times, the Lady Byng Trophy three times and helped the Kings win two Stanley Cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Kings captain announced on Thursday that his 20th season will be his last in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-153588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}