{"id":154991,"date":"2025-09-19T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154991\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:00:08","slug":"capitals-alex-ovechkin-still-sidelined-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154991\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals&#8217; Alex Ovechkin still sidelined with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"washington-capitals\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/washington-capitals\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Washington Capitals<\/a> were back on the ice Friday for training, and unfortunately for their fans, there was a noticeable absence.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin\u00a0left the ice on Thursday to be evaluated for a lower-body injury, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old made history last season as he surpassed Wayne Gretzky to become the NHL&#8217;s all-time leading goal scorer.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 season will be the Russian&#8217;s 21st in the NHL. In that span, he&#8217;s recorded only one sub-30-goal season, which came in the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,491 games, Ovechkin has 1,623 career points.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals officially open their season on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals were back on the ice Friday for training, and unfortunately for their fans, there was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-154991","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\/154991","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=154991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}